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Anglican XI beat Vatican in historic cricket match [Lambeth Palace press release] Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby congratulates both sides after historic match to raise awareness of Anglican-Roman Catholic efforts to wipe out modern slavery. Watch video here. Church of England cricketers beat a Vatican team yesterday in a historic match in support of a joint initiative to wipe out modern slavery and human trafficking. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, congratulated both sides and presented the trophy to winning captain Stephen Gray after the match, played in the shadow of Canterbury Cathedral at Kent County Cricket Ground. The Archbishop of Canterbury with the triumphant Anglican XI at Kent County Cricket Ground, 19 September 2014. The match was organized to raise awareness and funds for the Global Freedom Network, a joint initiative between religious leaders including Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury which is committed to eliminating modern slavery and human trafficking across the world. The St Peter's XI scored 106 from their 20 overs against the Anglican XI, who went on to win by six wickets with five balls to spare. View tweets and photos from the match Read more about the Global Freedom Network Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ecumenical & Interreligious

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Salva (en ) est une commune du județ de Bistrița-Năsăud en Transylvanie (Roumanie). Liens externes Notes et références Commune dans le județ de Bistrița-Năsăud

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Most us who have birded in the Himalayas have seen glimpses of the Golden Bush Robin (Tarsiger chrysaeus). A glimpse in the undergrowth is all that you usually get. The Golden bush Robin is a notorious skulker, very rarely does it venture out of the deep undergrowth. Fast moving, restless, frantic and with boundless energy, Babblers are a challenge for most birders. Combine these traits with a penchant for inhabiting the dark and damp undergrowth and you will understand why it is so difficult to photograph or even identify these birds.

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The hunt for a good pub feed in the heart of Sydney's CBD used to be a fruitless exercise. But that's not the case anymore. Venues everywhere are upping their food game to cater to demand. And Customs House Bar has officially joined the party. Circular Quay has – for a long time – been a place we'd avoid if we were looking for something to eat. The strange little shops by the wharves selling suspect pies, the expensive restaurants along the walk to the Opera House, the over-rated places around the Overseas Passenger Terminal… no thanks. But Customs House Bar, tucked a little way back from the Quay, isn't like that at all. Macquarie Place – my favourite little lunchtime park whenever I'm working in the city – overlooks this 168-year-old venue. It's a bit of an oasis of tranquility amongst the rush and bustle of the city. Executive chef, Hemant Dadlani, has done a complete re-write of the menu at Customs House Bar. Offerings are much more gastro-pub style than before. They've also changed the outdoor seating arrangements, which makes staying there for longer than a quick schooner much more enticing. We were trying the new look to this, one of Sydney's oldest venues, with our most excellent mate Steph from LipstickAndCake.com. Once the three of us get chatting (and eating), it's hard to stop us, so it's good the seating was comfortable! Thanks to some horrendous mid-week traffic, Steph was running quite late, so we were all starving by the time we ordered. The menu's divided into four sections: Foodies, Pub Grub, Local Market and Shares – all under the banner of 'Discover New Customs', which I thought was quite clever. We got stuck into the pulled pork steamed buns, which looked more like bao, from the Foodies section, the braised galangal beef short ribs, (super tender and sticky) and some delicious parmesan fries from the Shares section. From the Pub Grub section, we also had the 'Carnivore' pizza, which was pretty good, and their impressive signature dish, the Tajima wagyu burger. Tajima refers to the small islands off the west coast of Japan, where they farm special breeds of cattle for its meat. Yes, the food was great – as was the service, and the pricing was very fair too. If we were to question one part of the meal, it would be the salad that came with the ribs: there were whole turnips in it. I haven't seen that done before. The other major change to Customs House Bar is their beer and cocktail menu. I got chatting to the bar manager, who explained how all the new beers that were coming through the taps there now. They've got a very clever beer map inside to help punters choose their tipple. On top of the regular mainstream lagers, CHB also has some very small batch beers pretty much exclusive to the venue coming. As for cocktails, I think Steph's frozen rum margarita was favourite of the day. This is a great venue for a mid-week meal. It's perfect for a post-work feed with friends or even a relaxed date night option. The outdoor seating is going to be crucial this summer. It'll be the perfect place to enjoy the warm evenings. It looks like they could still do more to the inside though, which is a bit gloomy and soulless – a real contrast to the rest of the place. Open: Mon-Fri 11am till late. Food service is 12pm – 9pm. W: Customs House Bar – part of the Marriott Group. Links to: Food menu. Cocktail menu. Wine menu. Where's your favourite inner-city place to eat? Go and check out CHB and let us know what you think! Images by Mrs Romance. Mr & Mrs Romance dined as guests of CBH. They were good, weren't they, Steph?! Yes, looking forward to the next one defo! Um… Charlie to hang out with, Emilio to… make fun of. You?

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In 1174, the Protector of the Three Worlds, Drikung Kyobpa Jigten Sumgon, spontaneously composed the "Seven Supplications to Tara" while he beheld seven aspects of the Noble Savioress in a direct vision. To fathom and appreciate the depth of this important Vajra song, in the nineteenth century the monk and scholar Konchog Norzang wrote a quintessential commentary for it. "A Bouquet of Blue Lotus Flowers" unfolds the profound wisdom of Tara from the ultimate perspective of Mahamudra.

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We've got some of the UK's cheapest second hand and used cars on the internet. We partner with only the best UK Car Dealers and Oldfields Automobiles Limited is just one example of a quality Dealer offering excellent used car stock at good value. Oldfields Automobiles Limited provide used cars in Southport and the surrounding area. You can call Oldfields Automobiles Limited on 01704741128 about any of the used cars they are advertising on the CarVillage.co.uk site, or contact them directly via the enquiry form. Remember to include a contact number if you want Oldfields Automobiles Limited to get back to you ASAP. Oldfields Automobiles Limited provide used cars in Southport and the surrounding area. You can contact Oldfields Automobiles Limited about any of the used cars they are advertising on the CarVillage.co.uk site, or email them directly via the enquiry form. Remember to include a contact number if you want Oldfields Automobiles Limited to get back to you ASAP.

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Your author with a hard-earned dandy. In angling, there are a lot of things to follow, a lot of ways to organize your month or year or decade on the water. Some follow the bugs. Others the seasons. I myself have been chasing a passion. I've got a fever. And the answer isn't more cowbell. It's more musky. During my last musky trip (those meditative 70,000 or so casts that didn't produce a fish), I put a little thought into why someone might want to take up musky fishing and have come to the following conclusion. Musky fishing is a cure for excess. Maybe you've got too much time on your hands. Your S.O. left you for a golfer, or your bird dog has gone on point in the great beyond. Whatever the case, you've got some time in your day and you're looking to fill it with happy pursuits. Well it just so happens that a musky eat, whether a streaking slash or an epic role or an unseen churn deep down in the darkness, is a jarringly happy pursuit indeed. But it will cost you. By my last calculations, the going rate for a move is 500 hundred casts. An eat is 1,000. And a fish to hand is going to cost you in the neighborhood of 3,000 casts. In other words, that empty schedule of yours just got real full real fast. Fly tying bins overflowing with stuff? Not if you take up musky fishing they aren't. For the last few years I've been that guy proudly proclaiming that he has enough tying materials to last the rest of his days. My deerhair bin in particular spoke to the power of clearance sales and maniacal midwinter tying binges. What I now know is that it was not any sort of inner madness in me doing all that buying–it was the as yet unhatched musky hunter. Now the hairless picks of deer tailbones pile up in the corner of my tying room like its some sort of burial ground, and I've brought home my first fresh batch of hair in years. That new cologne I'm wearing these days? Deer derriere and borax. Maybe you're really lucky and have just too much cash these days. You won a scratch-off, got a huge raise, or inherited a fortune from a secretly rich, secretly munificent aunt. If money's burning a hole in your pocket, musky fishing can help you squelch some or all of that heat. Ever spend $200 on a mass-produced net? Or $70 dollars for 25 yards of tippet? That's the going rate for 110lb fluorocarbon these days. Whatever you've got left over you can spend on musky flies, which will run you $15-$20 bucks a pop. And no, tying your own won't save you–not when you're spending $2 per hook. Last but not least, maybe you've just got too much actual body left. You didn't play sports as a kid, and as a result have way too much range of motion in your rotator cuff–not much to proudly whine about during war-wound talk at the bar. Catch up to your creaking, wincing friends faster than you thought possible with a few weeks of musky fishing. Fish them year round and you just might be the first in your circle to require Tommy John surgery for casting. Now those are some bragging rights. He just might have been talking about muskies.

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Home » Prevention » Prevention in Focus » Spring 2016 » Disclosure programming: A review of the evidence Prevention in Focus CATIE Statements How Transmission Occurs Sexual Health and Safer Sex Substance Use and Harm Reduction Prevention Technologies Specific Populations Social and Legal Issues ↑ Contents Disclosure programming: A review of the evidence By Logan Broeckaert and Laurel Challacombe For people living with HIV the decision to disclose their HIV status to others is mostly a personal decision (except when there is a legal requirement to disclose to sexual partners). Although there may be significant benefits to disclosing an HIV status to others there may also be significant drawbacks. This review examines the evidence related to HIV disclosure and focuses on disclosure to sexual partners, family and friends, where most of the intervention research is concentrated. This review does not examine involuntary disclosure (where someone's HIV status is divulged without their consent) or disclosure in healthcare or the workplace. What are the findings of the evidence review? The available scientific literature was reviewed to determine the impact of disclosure interventions. There is mixed evidence on the impact of stand-alone disclosure interventions on rates of disclosure to sex partners. A systematic review found that disclosure rates increased significantly among participants in stand-alone disclosure interventions but could not make broad conclusions. A randomized controlled trial (RCT) did not find any significant difference between a group of men exposed to the intervention and a control group (strength of the evidence is mixed). There is mixed evidence on the impact of safer sex interventions with a disclosure component on rates of disclosure to sex partners. A randomized controlled trial found that participants in the intervention group were significantly more likely to consider the costs and benefits of disclosure three months and six months after the intervention compared to a control group. However, four studies—two RCTs and two quasi-experimental studies—did not find any significant difference between intervention groups and control groups (strength of the evidence is mixed). There is mixed evidence on the impact of stand-alone disclosure interventions designed to help people living with HIV disclose to family. One randomized controlled trial found a significant increase in disclosures to children in the intervention group compared to the control group (33% versus 7.3%). Although disclosure rates were higher in two other RCTs that compared intervention groups to control groups, the findings were not significant (strength of the evidence is mixed). Safer sex interventions with a disclosure component for HIV-positive people reduce the number of sex acts with partners who are HIV negative or of unknown HIV status. Three randomized controlled trials and two quasi-experimental studies of safer sex interventions that included a disclosure component found that intervention group participants significantly reduced the number of sex acts with partners who are HIV negative or of unknown HIV status compared to control groups. One RCT found a 73% reduction compared to the control group (the strength of the evidence is strong). Safer sex interventions with a disclosure component for HIV-positive people reduce the participants' number of HIV-negative partners. Evidence suggests that safer sex interventions with a disclosure component reduce the number of HIV-negative sex partners significantly compared to control groups (strength of the evidence is moderate). Participants are satisfied with safer sex interventions with disclosure components and find them acceptable. Evidence suggests that participants in safer sex interventions with a disclosure component report being satisfied with the intervention. They also report finding the interventions acceptable (strength of the evidence is moderate). Participants find safer sex interventions with disclosure components useful. Evidence suggests that participants find safer sex interventions with disclosure components useful (strength of the evidence is limited). Disclosure interventions boost participants' confidence to disclose. Evidence suggests that both stand-alone disclosure interventions and safer sex interventions with a disclosure component improve participants' confidence to disclose (strength of the evidence is moderate). Stand-alone disclosure interventions improve mental health outcomes. Evidence suggests that stand-alone disclosure interventions improve the mental health outcomes—anxiety, depression and well-being—of participants (strength of the evidence is moderate). Disclosure interventions improve communication skills and build disclosure strategies. Evidence suggests that both stand-alone disclosure interventions and safer sex interventions with a disclosure component improve participants' community skills and help them build disclosure strategies (strength of the evidence is moderate). In Canada, a number of programs and resources by Université du Québec à Montréal, CTAC (formerly known as Canadian Treatment Action Council), Ontario AIDS Network, Ontario Organizational Development Program, Women's Health in Women's Hands, Positive Living BC and Positive Women's Network currently provide guidance on disclosure for service providers and people living with HIV. What is disclosure? HIV disclosure is the process of revealing, when ready, one's HIV-positive status to others.1 People living with HIV are likely to disclose their status to family, friends, sexual partners, colleagues, healthcare providers and others gradually and selectively over time. Disclosure strategies—disclosing to everyone, disclosing to some people and disclosing to no one—may also change over time. Some people may choose to keep their HIV-positive status private from everyone other than their HIV healthcare provider, although studies suggest the percentage of people who have never disclosed to anyone in their social circle is low, between 4% and 16%.2,3,4 Disclosure to sexual partners may be the most difficult to do. Despite the challenge, studies suggest that rates of disclosure to sexual partners are high, between 58% and 95%.2,3,4,5,6,7 This rate may be high due to a legal duty to disclose as opposed to a choice to disclose. What are some of the benefits of people living with HIV disclosing their -positive status to sexual partners, family and friends? There can be distinct benefits for people living with HIV to disclose their positive status to family, friends and sexual partners. Research shows that people living with HIV who disclose their status to others report experiencing increased social support,8,9,10,11,12 better self-esteem,8,10 lower feelings of depression8,10 and increased intimacy with sex partners.8 Disclosure is also associated with better health and healthcare outcomes. Research shows disclosure is associated with retention in HIV care,13,14 and HIV treatment adherence.15 What are some of the drawbacks of people living with HIV disclosing their positive status to sexual partners, family and friends? There are also clear potential negative consequences for people living with HIV who disclose their positive status. Although reports of negative reactions to disclosure are relatively low—between 3% and 15%—they are a risk for people living with HIV.1 The risks of disclosure include feelings of abandonment or rejection,16,17 loss of family and friends,18 stigma and discrimination,8,16,17,19 and the threat or experience of violence and abuse.8,18,20 What factors impact a person's decision to disclose? A number of factors influence the decisions of people living with HIV to disclose their HIV status. Stigma may be an important factor in the decision for people living with HIV to disclose their positive status. Research among men who have sex with men (MSM) found that fear of stigma from others was a reason for non-disclosure.17 In addition to the perception of outside stigma, internal stigma can also impact a person's decision to disclose. A study among black MSM found that participants who reported a higher level of internal stigma about their HIV status reported less disclosure to family and sexual partners.21 Life stress and stress related to disclosure may also affect a person's decision to disclose. A study among people who were newly diagnosed with HIV found that participants who perceived disclosure to be stressful coped by not disclosing.22 The same study also found that people who found keeping their HIV-positive status a secret too stressful often chose to disclose. In addition to stigma and stress, previous disclosure experiences factor into a person's decision to continue disclosing. Two studies found that negative experiences with disclosure deterred people living with HIV from disclosing to other people.22,23 One study found that positive disclosure experiences motivated some people living with HIV to be more open about their status.23 Different factors may impact the decision of parents to disclose to their children. One study found that parents living with HIV who have large social networks were more likely to have disclosed their status to their children.11 Stress may also play a part in parents' decision to disclose to their children. One study found that parents who reported more stressful life events than other parents disclosed their HIV-positive status to their children.11 Parents are also more likely to disclose their HIV-positive status to older children and to daughters.11 The same study showed that mothers are more likely to disclose their HIV-positive status to their children than fathers.11 Do disclosure programs work? The available scientific literature on the effectiveness of HIV disclosure programs, from jurisdictions with an HIV epidemic comparable to ours, including the United States and European countries, was reviewed. Details on the methodology we used can be found at the end of this article. This review examines the evidence related to HIV disclosure and focuses on disclosure to sexual partners, family and friends, where most of the intervention research is concentrated. This review does not examine involuntary disclosure (where someone's HIV status is divulged without their consent) or disclosure in healthcare or the workplace. The available scientific evidence to support each outcome was assessed and assigned an evidence rating. Although the evidence rating is somewhat flexible, ratings were based on the following criteria: Strong Evidence: At least one systematic review or a large body of randomized control trials and quasi-experimental studies (and observational research) supports the ability of the intervention to impact on the outcome. Moderate Evidence: Limited randomized control trials and/or quasi-experimental studies (and observational research) support the ability of the intervention to impact the outcome. Limited Evidence: Observational research supports the ability of the intervention to impact the outcome. No Evidence: No published research exists to support the ability of the intervention to impact the outcome. The strength of the evidence is based on the quantity and quality of the evidence (type of study design) and not the size of the outcome. Both stand-alone disclosure programs and safer sex programs for people living with HIV that include a disclosure component were examined and are included in this review. This means that for general safer sex interventions that include a disclosure component, it is not possible to determine what component of the intervention impacted (or not) disclosure outcomes. All interventions were designed and researched in the United States or Europe. Disclosure outcomes Disclosure to sex partners Disclosure to sex partners has distinct benefits such as increased social support,8,9,10,11,12 better self-esteem,8,10 lower feelings of depression8,10 and increased intimacy with sex partners.8 In Canada, people living with HIV also have a legal duty to disclose their HIV-positive status to their sex partners before having sex that poses a realistic possibility of transmission.24,25 Stand-alone disclosure interventions There is mixed evidence on the effectiveness of stand-alone disclosure interventions in increasing disclosure to sex partners from one systematic review,26 one randomized controlled trial27 and one observational study.28 The systematic review,26 which included five studies, found that three of the studies (60%) showed that disclosure to sex partners significantly increased after a disclosure intervention compared to various control groups. However, there was significant variation among the interventions included in the review, which means broad conclusions on the effectiveness of these disclosure interventions could not be made. The randomized controlled trial27 studied a stand-alone disclosure intervention for MSM that offered six three-hour, in-person, peer-led group sessions over six weeks. Participants learned about disclosure, relationships and mental health through large and small group activities. This intervention was compared to a one-time two-hour intervention that consisted of information about HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and safer sex delivered through a panel presentation. The researchers did not find any significant difference in disclosure rates to sex partners in the intervention or control groups three months (41% versus 45%) or six months (40% versus 45%) after the intervention. The observational study28 compared the effect of disclosure counselling on rates of disclosure among people living with HIV. Participants were asked to fill out a survey about the disclosure counselling they had received in the past. Researchers divided participants into four groups: people counselled about disclosure at diagnosis only people counselled at diagnosis and at least once by their current clinician people counselled by their current clinician only people who had never received disclosure counselling. The study found that disclosure rates to sex partners were significantly higher (79%) among people who were counselled at diagnosis and then again by their current clinician (group 2) compared to all the other groups. The disclosure rate was 45% among people counselled at diagnosis (group 1), 55% among those who were counselled by their current clinician only (group 3), and 51% among those who had never received disclosure counselling (group 4). Safer sex interventions with a disclosure component Many disclosure interventions are integrated into larger safer sex programs aimed at reducing the risk of HIV transmission. There is mixed evidence from three randomized controlled trials29,30,31 and two quasi-experimental studies32,33 that safer sex interventions that include a disclosure component impact HIV disclosure rates to sex partners. The first randomized controlled trial30 studied the impact of two videos (one dramatic and one a documentary) and a webpage on disclosure for HIV-positive and HIV-negative MSM. These two intervention arms were compared to a control group which did not receive any intervention. The study found that 60 days after the intervention, significantly more MSM who saw the videos reported full disclosure to sex partners (47%) compared to the control group (40%). However, the webpage failed to significantly impact full disclosure, with only 45% of MSM reporting full disclosure. The second randomized controlled trial29 studied a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component called Protect and Respect. This in-person, group-level, 90-minute weekly intervention for HIV-positive women focused on disclosure, sexual risk reduction, HIV and STI information, healthy relationships, condom negotiation, problem solving and goal setting. In addition, participants attended weekly 60-minute in-person peer-led sessions that were less structured and allowed participants to explore the skills they learned in the weekly intervention. The intervention also included brief messages about safe sex and disclosure from healthcare providers during scheduled appointments. The control group only received brief messages from their healthcare providers during scheduled appointments. The study found that significantly more disclosure occurred to sex partners in the intervention group at six months after the intervention compared to the control group (83% versus 61%). No statistically significant differences were found 12 and 18 months after the intervention. In a further analysis, which took into account other factors, no statistical differences were found in disclosure rates at any of the time points. However, in qualitative research related to the project, participants in the intervention arm of the study reported that sharing disclosure stories and role-playing disclosure scenarios was valuable. The third randomized controlled trial34 studied an in-person group-level safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for HIV-positive people. Participants attended five two-hour sessions over 2.5 weeks. Sessions aimed to help participants develop disclosure and safer sex skills. Scenes from popular films were used to reinforce messages. Intervention participants were compared to a control group of HIV-positive participants in a support group of the same length and format that did not offer skills development. The study34 found that participants in the intervention group were significantly more likely to consider the costs and benefits of disclosure three months after the intervention ended compared to the control group (62% versus 50%). Six months after the intervention, the difference between the two groups was no longer significant (59% versus 55%). The study did not measure rates of actual disclosure. A quasi-experimental study32 examined a two-module, in-person safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for HIV-positive youth recruited from a youth HIV clinic. In the first module, "Stay Healthy," which was delivered over 12 sessions, information focused on the participants coping with learning their serostatus, including issues of disclosure. Module 2, "Act Safe," delivered over 11 sessions, focused on safer sex. These 23 sessions were delivered over 21 months. Participants in the intervention were compared to HIV-positive youth receiving regular HIV clinical healthcare at the youth HIV clinics where intervention participants were recruited. The study found that youth in the intervention group increased disclosure rates to sex partners from 54% to 64% compared to participants in the control group who increased disclosure rates from 54% to 57%. However, these results were not statistically significant. A quasi-experimental study33 explored the effects of a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component on the rates of disclosure to sex partners among HIV-positive MSM. The intervention combined a computer-assisted survey with tailored sexual risk-reduction counselling from a healthcare provider. Counselling was tailored to each participant and targeted to the sexual risk behaviour that the participant was most ready to change, based on the results of the survey. The study did not find a statistically significant change in disclosure rates. Disclosure rates in the study group were already very high (97% with HIV-positive partners and 80% with HIV-negative partners). Disclosure to others: family and children Disclosure of their HIV-positive status to family may have significant benefits for people living with HIV, including increased adherence,15 social support,8,9,10 improved self-esteem,8,10 and lower feelings of depression.8,10 There is mixed evidence from three randomized controlled trials35,36,37 that participants in disclosure interventions geared toward them telling family or children of their HIV-positive status are more likely to disclose to their loved ones than control groups. The first randomized controlled trial35 studied the effect of a psychologist-led, group-level, in-person stand-alone disclosure intervention for the caregivers of children living with HIV. Caregivers attended eight two-hour sessions held monthly where issues such as guilt, barriers to disclosure, and confidence-building around disclosure were discussed. These participants were compared to a control group of caregivers of HIV-positive children that did not receive the psychotherapeutic intervention. The study found that after one year, the disclosure rate in the intervention group was 60% versus 14% in a control. This finding was not statistically significant because of the small sample size of the study. The second randomized controlled trial36 studied the effect of TRACK, an individual-level stand-alone disclosure intervention for HIV-positive mothers. Mothers attended three in-person individual counselling sessions over three weeks and received one follow-up phone call. During these sessions, a therapist discussed child development, communication and role-play scenarios for disclosing to children. Participants in the control arm received standard medical care and case management. The study found women in the intervention were six times more likely to disclose to their children than the mothers in the control group nine months after the intervention (33% versus 7.3%). This finding was statistically significant. The final randomized controlled trial37 studied the effect of a stand-alone disclosure intervention that provided four weekly individual in-person counselling sessions to HIV-positive MSM to help them disclose to family. The sessions included discussions of best and worst disclosure experiences and planning for future disclosures. Intervention participants were compared to a control group of HIV-positive MSM on a wait list for the intervention. The percentage of family members to whom the intervention participants had disclosed increased from 46% to 52% three months after the intervention. In the control group, it increased from 40% to 43%. Neither increase was statistically significant. Transmission risk behaviour Disclosure by people living with HIV of their HIV-positive status to sexual partners may be one approach in a larger risk-reduction strategy to prevent HIV transmission during sex. Disclosure can be the first step in negotiations of safer sex. Disclosure by the person with HIV may lead sex partners to make disclosures of their own. For example, they may disclose their own HIV-positive status, their viral load, their STI status, and HIV-negative partners may disclose their use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Ultimately, disclosure in the context of sex may reduce the risk of HIV transmission to HIV-negative partners and reduce the transmission of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among partners, regardless of HIV status. Unprotected sex with partners who are HIV negative or of unknown status among participants in safer sex interventions with a disclosure component There is strong evidence from five randomized controlled trials34,38,39,40,41 and two quasi-experimental studies32,33 that participants in safer sex interventions that include a disclosure component are more likely to reduce acts of unprotected sex with partners who are HIV negative or of unknown status compared to participants in control groups. The first randomized controlled trial38 studied an individual-level safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for HIV-positive people called Safe Talk. Safe Talk uses motivational interviewing over four monthly in-person sessions, with supporting tools such as booklets and letters. All safer sex information is tailored to the participant. Intervention participants were compared to a control group of HIV-positive people who received a heart health intervention of the same length and format. The study found that the average number of unprotected sex acts within the past three months with at-risk partners decreased significantly from 2.0 at baseline to 0.5 eight months after the end of the program. After taking into account other factors, the study found that the participants in the intervention group reduced the average number of unprotected sex acts with partners who were HIV negative or of unknown status by 73% compared to the control group over eight months. The second randomized controlled trial34 studied a group-level safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for HIV-positive people. Participants attended five two-hour in-person sessions over 2.5 weeks. Sessions aimed to help participants develop disclosure and safer sex skills. Scenes from popular films were used to reinforce messages. Intervention participants were compared to a control group of HIV-positive participants in a support group of the same length and format that did not offer skills development. The study34 found that participants in the intervention group significantly reduced acts of unprotected vaginal and anal sex within the past three months with partners who were HIV negative or of unknown status from 0.9 acts at baseline to 0.3 acts three months after the end of the intervention and to 0.2 acts six months after the intervention. Over the same period, the control group increased their number of unprotected sex acts from 0.4 at baseline to 0.5 three months after the intervention and 1.0 six months after the intervention. The third randomized controlled trial39 studied an individual-level safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for HIV-positive MSM. The intervention, known as The Healthy Living Project, consisted of fifteen 90-minute in-person counselling sessions that covered modules on stress, coping, adjustment, disclosure, STIs, medication adherence and active participation in healthcare. Intervention participants were compared to a control group of HIV-positive MSM on a wait list to start the intervention. The study found a significant reduction in sex acts with partners who were HIV negative or of unknown status in the intervention group compared to the control group. The relative risk reduction was 22% at five months, 38% at 10 months, 52% at 15 months and 62% at 20 months. The fourth randomized controlled trial40 studied an individual-level safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for HIV-positive MSM called Project Enhance. The intervention consisted of five 50 to 90 minute in-person sessions with a social worker over three months. Four booster visits were scheduled three, six, nine and 12 months after the end of the original intervention. Social workers used a workbook to counsel participants on safer sex, party drugs, managing stress, triggers and disclosure. Social workers used motivational interviewing to identify barriers to safer sex and develop new skills to help participants change their behaviour. Intervention participants were compared to a control group of HIV-positive MSM who received standard care. The study did not find a significant difference in the average number of unprotected sex acts with partners who were HIV negative or of unknown status between the intervention and the control groups. The fifth randomized controlled trial41 studied Positive Choices, a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for newly diagnosed HIV-positive MSM. During three 60-minute in-person sessions, HIV counsellors covered topics such as sexual health, risk-reduction planning, disclosure and communication skills. The third session was a recap and booster for the first two sessions. Intervention participants were compared to a control group that received standard care and access to the health centre's comprehensive support services. The study found the intervention did not have a significant impact on the number of unprotected sex acts with partners who were HIV negative or of unknown status compared to the control group. However, the study did find that participants in the intervention group decreased their frequency of unprotected sex acts with partners who were HIV negative or of unknown status at a faster rate than the control group over the year following the intervention. The first quasi-experimental study32 studied a two-module, in-person safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for HIV-positive youth recruited from a youth HIV clinic. In the first module, "Stay Healthy," which was delivered over 12 sessions, information focused on the participants coping with learning their serostatus, including issues of disclosure. Module 2, "Act Safe," delivered over 11 sessions, focused on safer sex. These sessions were delivered over 21 months. Participants in the intervention were compared to a control group of HIV-positive youth receiving regular healthcare at the youth HIV clinics where intervention participants were recruited. The study also compared intervention group attendees to participants who were assigned to the intervention group but who did not attend any intervention sessions (non-attendees). The study found that participants in the intervention group who attended at least one session significantly reduced the number of unprotected sex acts compared to both the control group and non-attendees. Intervention group participants who attended at least one session reported an average of 2.8 acts of unprotected sex (over the past 15 months) compared to 15.5 acts for the control group and 10.6 acts for non-attendees 15 months after the intervention. The second quasi-experimental study33 explored the effects of a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component on the rates of unprotected sex among HIV-positive MSM with partners who were HIV negative or of unknown status. The intervention combined a computer-assisted survey with tailored in-person sexual risk-reduction counselling from a healthcare provider. Counselling was tailored to each participant and targeted to the sexual risk behaviour that the participant was most ready to change, based on the results of the survey. The study found that the intervention significantly reduced the number of unprotected anal insertive sex acts with partners who were HIV negative or of unknown status from an average of 0.73 sex acts (over the past three months) reported during the first visit to 0.02 by the fifth visit. Reduction in the number of sex partners There is moderate evidence from two quasi-experimental studies32,33 that participants in a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component reduced the number of sex partners compared to control group participants. The first quasi-experimental study32 studied a two-module, in-person safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for HIV-positive youth recruited from a youth HIV clinic. The first module, "Stay Healthy," was delivered over 12 sessions, and focused on coping with learning their serostatus, including issues of disclosure. Module 2, "Act Safe," delivered over 11 sessions, focused on safer sex. These sessions were delivered over 21 months. Participants in the intervention were compared to a control group of HIV-positive youth receiving regular healthcare at the youth HIV clinics where intervention participants were recruited. The study also compared the results of intervention group attendees to participants assigned to the intervention group but who did not attend any sessions (non-attendees). The study found that participants in the intervention group who attended at least one session significantly reduced the number of HIV-negative partners compared to intervention group non-attendees. Intervention group attendees reported an average of 1.4 HIV-negative partners (over the past 15 months) compared to 3.1 HIV-negative partners in the intervention group non-attendees 15-months after the intervention. There was not a significant difference in the number of HIV-negative partners between the intervention group and the control group. The second quasi-experimental study33 explored the effects of a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component on the rates of disclosure to sex partners among HIV-positive MSM. The intervention combined a computer-assisted survey with tailored sexual risk-reduction in-person counselling from a healthcare provider. Counselling was tailored to each participant and targeted to the sexual risk behaviour that the participant was most ready to change, based on the results of the survey. The study found that intervention participants significantly reduced their number of male sexual partners of any status, from an average of 3.08 (over the past three months) at the first visit to 1.63 by the fifth visit. Client-reported outcomes Disclosure is a personal decision that people living with HIV must make many times during their lives. Effective interventions that support people to disclose should be acceptable and useful. They should also build confidence in people to disclose safely and effectively and help them develop the communication skills needed to broach the topic. Finally, disclosure programs should have a positive impact on peoples' outlook, including on mental health and well-being measures. Intervention satisfaction/acceptability Disclosure interventions must be acceptable to people living with HIV so they are willing to participate in them and use the skills these interventions offer. There is moderate evidence from one randomized controlled trial41 and one observational study42 that safer sex interventions that include disclosure components are satisfactory/acceptable to participants. The randomized controlled trial41 studied Positive Choices, a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component for newly diagnosed HIV-positive MSM. During three in-person 60-minute sessions, HIV counsellors covered topics such as sexual health, risk-reduction planning, disclosure and communication skills. The third session was a recap and booster for the first two sessions. Intervention participants were asked to rate the acceptability of the intervention. The study found an average acceptability score of 3.47/4, which is high. The standard deviation was 0.47, which means that most of the acceptability ratings were close to the average. The observational study42 explored a group safer sex intervention with a disclosure component called SHAPE. The group-level intervention uses mixed media, including video clips, to provide HIV-positive participants the information and skills needed to disclose their status and reduce HIV transmission. Participants were asked to complete a satisfaction survey. All components of the session were rated between 3.5 and 4, with 4 being the highest possible satisfaction rating. Participants were also satisfied with the facilitators. All participants rated the facilitators 3.75/4 or higher, with 4 being the highest possible rating. Both measures suggest that participants were satisfied with the intervention. In addition to being acceptable, disclosure interventions must be useful to people living with HIV. There is limited evidence from one observational study42 that safer sex interventions that include disclosure components are useful to participants. The observational study42 examined a group safer sex intervention with a disclosure component called SHAPE. The group-level intervention uses mixed media, including video clips, to provide HIV-positive participants the information and skills needed to disclose their status and reduce HIV transmission. Averages scores for the sessions ranged between 3.4 and 4.0 on a usefulness scale, with 4 being the highest possible rating. This suggests most participants found the sessions useful. Confidence to disclose is a key component in the process of a person living with HIV disclosing their HIV-positive status. There is moderate evidence from one randomized controlled trial29 and one quasi-experimental study43 that stand-alone disclosure interventions and safer sex interventions that include disclosure components improve participants' confidence to disclose their HIV-positive status to other people. The randomized controlled trial29 studied a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component called Protect and Respect. This group-level, 90-minute weekly intervention for HIV-positive women focused on disclosure, sexual risk reduction, HIV and STI information, healthy relationships, condom negotiation, problem solving and goal setting. Weekly 60-minute in-person peer-led sessions were also held that were less structured and allowed participants to explore the skills they learned in the group session. Finally, the intervention also included brief messages about safe sex and disclosure from healthcare providers during scheduled appointments. The control group only received brief messages from their healthcare providers during scheduled appointments. Through qualitative interviews, the study29 found that participants reported feeling more confident about disclosing. However, this did not translate into any of the women disclosing their status to others. This may point to the complex, interconnected socio-structural barriers, such as stigma and violence, that impact women's ability to disclose that they have HIV. The quasi-experimental study43 examined an individual-level disclosure intervention among HIV-positive people of colour. The intervention used motivational interviewing over three in-person sessions that lasted up to 60 minutes. In the first phase, participants reflect on advice they might give other people living with HIV; in the second, they reflect on particular strategies they would use to disclose to others; and in the third phase, participants reflect on two or three people to whom they would like to disclose. The study found that participants reported a significant increase in disclosure confidence from 2.36/10 before the intervention to 3.25/10 six months after the intervention. Higher scores represented higher levels of disclosure confidence. Even after the intervention, the scores remain low, despite the significance of the findings. This suggests that building the confidence to disclose may be a long process. Mental health outcomes There is moderate evidence from one randomized controlled trial35 and one quasi-experimental study43 that stand-alone disclosure interventions have a positive impact on outcomes such as well-being, anxiety and depression. The first randomized controlled trial35 studied the effect of a psychologist-led, group-level stand-alone disclosure intervention for the caregivers of children living with HIV. Caregivers attended eight in-person two-hour sessions held monthly. Issues related to guilt, barriers to disclosure, and confidence-building around disclosure were discussed. Participants were compared to a control group of parents of HIV-positive children that did not receive the psychotherapeutic intervention. The study found that the psychological well-being and anxiety scores of intervention group participants improved significantly compared to the control group. Psychological well-being increased in 70% of the intervention parents but in 0% of the control parents. Anxiety decreased in 60% of the intervention parents but in 0% of the control parents. The quasi-experimental study43 examined an individual-level disclosure intervention among HIV-positive people of colour. The intervention used motivational interviewing over three sessions that lasted up to 60 minutes. In the first phase, participants reflect on advice they might give other people living with HIV; in the second, they reflect on particular strategies they would use to disclose to others; and in the third phase, participants reflect on two or three people to whom they would like to disclose. The study found average anxiety scores were reduced among participants, from 4.41/10 before the intervention to 3.76/10 six months after the intervention was finished. Higher scores indicated higher levels of anxiety. Communication skills and strategies Disclosing an HIV-positive status may be difficult to do for people living with HIV. Strong communication skills may be key to facilitating the process. There is moderate evidence from two randomized controlled trials29,36 that stand-alone disclosure interventions and safer sex interventions with a disclosure component improve communication skills and disclosure strategies among people living with HIV. The first randomized controlled trial36 studied the effect of TRACK, an individual-level stand-alone disclosure intervention for HIV-positive mothers. Mothers attended three individual in-person counselling sessions over three weeks and received one follow-up phone call. During these sessions, a therapist discussed child development, communication and role-play scenarios for disclosing to children. Participants in the control arm received medical care and case management. Among mothers who disclosed in the intervention group, 85% reported they believed they handled the disclosure well; 85% agreed they were prepared to answer questions; 69% agreed they waited until they were in the right frame of mine; and 69% agreed they handled their children's reactions well, all signs of effective communication skills and disclosure strategies. The control group was not asked about their communication skills or disclosure strategies. The second randomized controlled trial29 studied a safer sex intervention with a disclosure component called Protect and Respect. This group-level, 90-minute weekly intervention for HIV-positive women focused on disclosure, sexual risk reduction, HIV and STI information, healthy relationships, condom negotiation, problem solving and goal setting. Weekly 60-minute peer-led sessions were also held that were less structured and allowed participants to explore the skills they learned in the group session. Finally, the intervention also included brief messages about safe sex and disclosure from healthcare providers during scheduled appointments. The control group only received brief messages from their healthcare providers during scheduled appointments. Through qualitative findings, the study found that the group helped the women share disclosure strategies. However, this improved ability to share strategies with other women did not lead to any disclosures. Summary Table: Evidence to support disclosure interventions Mixed/Ineffective Disclosure to sex partners: stand-alone disclosure interventions Disclosure to sex partners: safer sex interventions with a disclosure component Disclosure to children: Stand-alone disclosure interventions Sex with HIV-negative or unknown status partners: safer sex interventions with a disclosure component Reduction in HIV-negative partners: safer sex interventions with a disclosure component Satisfaction/Acceptability Disclosure confidence Communication skills and disclosure strategies What does this mean for disclosure programs in Canada? The factors that lead to a person's decision to disclose their HIV-positive status to family, friends and sexual partners are complex and inter-related. Providing people living with HIV the skills to make these decisions and to disclose their status is key to improving their quality of life. In Canada, a number of programs and resources by Université du Québec à Montréal, CTAC (formerly known as Canadian Treatment Action Council, Ontario AIDS Network, Ontario Organizational Development Program, Women's Health in Women's Hands, Positive Living BC and Positive Women's Network currently provide guidance on disclosure for service providers and people living with HIV. Overall, the evidence is mixed on disclosure interventions—both stand-alone disclosure interventions and safer sex interventions—developed to help people living with HIV disclose to sex partners. The significant variation among interventions means that broad conclusions about the effectiveness of disclosure programs on disclosure to sex partners cannot be made. However, some trends across interventions designed to increase disclosure to sex partners were observed. Most group-level interventions did not have a significant effect on disclosure rates to sex partners. Individual-level interventions, including the use of videos and repeat counselling, did show some significant effect. The evidence is also mixed about the effectiveness of interventions on disclosures to family and children. Both interventions that studied parental disclosure to children found that disclosure rates were higher among parents in the intervention arm of the study, although only one of those results was statistically significant. An intervention for MSM that supported them to disclose to family increased disclosure rates, the increase was not significant. Although the evidence related to disclosure outcomes is mixed, the evidence suggests that safer sex interventions with a disclosure component are effective at reducing unprotected sex in a variety of populations of people living with HIV, including MSM and youth. There is also evidence that these types of interventions help participants reduce their overall number of HIV-negative sex partners. Finally, both stand-alone disclosure interventions and safer sex interventions with a disclosure component are acceptable and useful to participants. There is evidence to suggest that both stand-alone disclosure interventions and safer sex interventions with disclosure components increase confidence to disclose and improve communication around disclosure. The research also shows that stand-alone disclosure interventions positively impact mental health. Despite the mixed success of disclosure interventions, two strategies may have positive outcomes on disclosure. First, ongoing support may be critical in increasing disclosure rates. One study42 found that people who are counselled more than once are more likely to disclose than those who received counselling once or never received counselling. Second, regardless of whether interventions increase disclosure, participants may find that interventions help them discuss, think about and role-play disclosure within the group, which over time may increase disclosures.29,34 Future messages and programs may want to address issues of disclosure more broadly. Most of the studies in this review were conducted before both HIV treatment for people living with HIV and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) were shown to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by more than 90%. These highly effective HIV prevention strategies complicate disclosure messaging and interventions. New disclosure interventions should consider encouraging people living with HIV not only to disclose their status but also their viral load. New interventions may also include safer sex messaging that encourages people to disclose the results—negative or positive—of recent STI tests, as STIs can facilitate the transmission of HIV. Finally, future disclosure interventions may also include support for HIV-negative people on PrEP to disclose their use of PrEP with potential sex partners. This review is based on a search that included the use of PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and PsycINFO. MeSH search terms included truth disclosure; self disclosure; HIV infections; intervention studies; and program evaluation. Embase subject headings included self disclosure; interpersonal communication; and human immunodeficiency virus. CINAHL subject headings included truth disclosure; self disclosure; HIV-infected patients; and HIV seropositivity. PsycINFO subject headings included self disclosure. Keyword search terms included disclosure, intervention, and HIV. The reference lists of relevant articles were reviewed for additional citations. All searches focused on research relevant to health care delivery in Canada. 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Logan Broeckaert holds a Master's degree in History and is currently a researcher/writer at CATIE. Before joining CATIE, Logan worked on provincial and national research and knowledge exchange projects for the Canadian AIDS Society and the Ontario Public Health Association. Laurel Challacombe holds a Masters degree in Epidemiology and is currently Associate Director, Research/Evaluation and Prevention Science at CATIE. Laurel has worked in the field of HIV for more than 10 years and has held various positions in both provincial and regional organizations, working in research and knowledge transfer and exchange.

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084 Phil 212 : JULY 1949 - PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT JURISPRUDENCE - CHANROBLES VIRTUAL LAW LIBRARY July-1949 Jurisprudence G.R. No. L-1803 July 5, 1949 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. MOISES ACOSTA Adm. No. 36 July 7, 1949 - IN RE: JOSE TOPACIO NUENO G.R. No. L-2305 July 8, 1949 - ESTEBAN M. CORPUZ v. ISIDORO B. IBAY G.R. No. L-2301 July 11, 1949 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. RICARDO ERIT, ET AL. G.R. No. L-1630 July 23, 1949 - ANTONIO NARVAEZ v. DIONISIO DE LEON, ET AL. G.R. No. L-1729 July 23, 1949 - EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORP. v. BPI G.R. No. L-1525 July 27, 1949 - MODESTO SORIANO v. CAROLINA ABALOS, ET AL. 084 Phil 1525 G.R. No. L-1752 July 27, 1949 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. ERNESTO M. POBLETE, ET AL. G.R. No. L-1789 July 29, 1949 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. ISMAEL AQUIVIDO G.R. No. L-1675 July 30, 1949 - LOCK BEN PING v. REPUBLIC OF THE PHIL. G.R. No. L-2855 July 30, 1949 - BORIS MEJOFF v. DIRECTOR OF PRISONS Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1949 > July 1949 Decisions > G.R. No. L-1789 July 29, 1949 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. ISMAEL AQUIVIDO [G.R. No. L-1789. July 29, 1949.] THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ISMAEL AQUIVIDO, Defendant-Appellant. Santiago F. Alidio for Appellant. Assistant Solicitor General Guillermo E. Torres and Solicitor Martiniano P. Vivo for Appellee. 1. CRIMINAL LAW; TREASON; ACCUSED'S ACTIVITIES AS MAKAPILI CONSTITUTE THE CRIME OF TREASON. — Appellant was a Sakdal before the war. Early during the occupation he helped carry out the enemy' policy of disarming the civilians by confiscating the revolver of one J. L. He associated with the Makapilis in their headquarters and bore firearm at a time when that privilege was denied to those who were not working for the Japanese. He had identified himself with the Makapili organization and had his part in the segregation of guerrilla suspects from the large crowd that had gathered in the church on the day of the massacre. He was there to help keep order or prevent those thus picked out from escaping, or putting up resistance. He was thus identified with the task which the Makapili organization was then performing, which was that of apprehending guerrilla suspects and turning them over to the Japanese. Held, That appellant was guilty of treason by having adhered to the enemy and given the latter aid and comfort. REYES, J.: The defendant Ismael Aquivido, a Filipino citizen, is accused of treason on three counts. Briefly, he is charged with having, in the month of February, 1945, adhered and given aid and comfort to the enemy by joining the Makapili organization in the City of San Pablo, Laguna, and cooperating with the Japanese Army in the apprehension of guerrilla suspects, commandeering of vehicles and supplies, burning of houses, and fleeing to the mountains and fighting the American and guerrilla forces, and, in particular, in the rounding up, on February 24, 1945, of over six hundred civilians in the said city and the identification and segregation out of that group of a number of guerrilla suspects, who were on that same day massacred by the Japanese soldiers. There is no proof that defendant has taken part in the commandeering of vehicles and supplies and in the burning of properties or that he fled and fought with the Japanese forces. But there is proof that before the war defendant was a Sakdal and that during the Japanese occupation he confiscated the gun of one Jose Lanuza. There is also proof of the existence of a Makapili branch in the City of San Pablo and, although it does not appear how defendant got into that organization, two witnesses testified that they knew him to be a Makapili. Moreover, he was garbed like the other Makapilis and bore a firearm. He was also seen at the Makapili headquarters consorting with members of that organization. Once he was seen with some companions in a calesa, escorting two bound men to headquarters. The evidence further shows that, in the morning of February 24, 1945, the male residents of San Pablo City between the ages of 15 and 50 were made to assemble in the church on the pretext that laborers would be recruited. Once they were inside the edifice, the doors were closed and it was then announced that only some would be selected. To that end they were made to march out through the door of the adjoining seminary before a line of Japanese soldiers and armed Makapilis. As they marched out, Agripino Calavia, a Makapili chief, picked out the wanted men by patting them on the back and those thus identified, or at least about seventy of them, were taken over by the Japanese soldiers and later massacred. These facts were established by the testimony of several of those who were assembled in the church on that occasion and two of those who were led to the place of massacre and bayoneted but managed to survive by playing dead. These same witnesses testified that on that occasion, as they marched out through the door of the seminary, they say defendant standing beside or near Agripino Calavia, the man who was identifying the guerrilla suspects to be turned over to the Japanese soldiers. Defendant, like the other Makapilis, then had a firearm and wore khaki shirt, "maong" pants, leggings, and a Japanese cap with visor. Defendant did neither testify nor present proof in his favor. On the above evidence, a division of the People's Court found him guilty of treason and sentenced him to reclusion perpetua, with the accessory penalties prescribed by law, and to pay a fine of P10,000, and the costs. From this sentence, defendant has appealed, alleging that — "The First Division of the People's Court erred in finding the appellant guilty of treason notwithstanding that no one of the witnesses testified to the overt acts alleged in the information, and presuming, contrary to the two-witness rule, that the appellant affiliated with the organization known as Makapili."cralaw virtua1aw library Not all of the counts in the information were proved, it is true. But we gather from the decision appealed from that the People's Court found it as a fact that defendant had identified himself with the Makapili organization and had his part in the segregation of guerrilla suspects from the large crowd that had gathered in the church on the day of the massacre. There is ample proof to support this finding. The existence of a Makapili organization in the City of San Pablo with headquarters in the seminary is a fact sufficiently established by the evidence and, besides, this Court has already held that the existence and aims of the Makapili organization are matters of public notoriety that come within judicial notice. Thus, in the case of People v. Alitagtag, 45 Off. Gaz., 715, this Court said:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph "Judicial notice may be taken of the existence and purposes of the Makapili organization as matters of public notoriety and interest and as part of contemporary history. The courts knew as historical facts that the Makapili association was organized under the sponsorship, direction and supervision of the Japanese Army; that its aims were as stated in the preamble and purposes of its by-laws, Exhibit A-1; that it was a body of men recruited and armed chiefly for the purpose of warfare and placed itself at the disposal of the enemy; that it received military training and instruction from Japanese military personnel and was equipped by the invaders for combat; that Filipinos joined that association and rendered service in furtherance of the above objectives, fighting side by side with the Japanese, commandeering supplies for the latter, and in many instances excelling their overlords in the commission of atrocities against their own countrymen in a campaign to suppress what they and the Japanese regarded as subversive acts."cralaw virtua1aw library There is no proof of appellant's formal induction into the Makapili organization. But, as already stated, two witnesses testified that they knew him to be a Makapili. Moreover, membership in that organization "need not be established by direct testimony" but "may be inferred from the surrounding circumstances." (People v. Alitagtag, supra.) In the present case appellant's identification with the Makapilis may be inferred from a combination of circumstances which eloquently point to that fact. He was a Sakdal before the war. Early during the occupation he helped carry out the enemy's policy of disarming the civilians by confiscating the revolver of one Jose Lanuza. He was seen in a calesa conducting two bound men to the Makapili headquarters. He associated with the Makapilis in their headquarters. He bore firearm at a time when that privilege was denied to those who were not working for the Japanese. He was with the other Makapilis in church on February 24, 1945, standing beside or near their local chief, Calavia, while the latter was identifying those suspected of guerrilla activities, who were later massacred by the Japanese. He was then garbed like a Makapili. There is no proof that he has taken part in rounding up the male residents of the City of San Pablo and concentrating them in church. He was not the one who identified the guerrilla suspects and he had no direct part in their execution. But despite the conflict of testimony on the kind of firearm he bore on that occasion, the evidence is quite clear that he was there with the other Makapilis and was armed like them. Indeed, he was, according to the witnesses, on the line of Makapilis posted at or near the door of the seminary through which those concentrated in the church were made to file out while the chief Makapili picked out those suspected of guerrilla activities. The obvious inference from this fact is that he was there to help keep order or prevent those thus picked out from escaping or putting up resistance. He was thus identified with the task which the Makapili organization was then performing, which was that of apprehending guerrilla suspects and turning them over to the Japanese. It would be idle to suggest that he just happened to be in that place by accident or as a mere spectator. He made no claim that he was merely an innocent by-stander, for he did not testify at all. Our conclusion, therefore, is that appellant has been proved to be a Makapili and to have had a part in the carrying out of one of the main purposes of the Makapili organization when on February 24, 1945, he joined the Makapili escort at the door of the seminary for the obvious purpose of giving armed support to the identification and apprehension of guerrilla suspects. This shows that he has adhered to the enemy and given the latter aid and comfort. He is therefore guilty of treason. There being no reason to disturb the sentence appealed from, the same is affirmed, with costs against the Appellant. Moran, C.J., Ozaeta, Paras, Feria, Perfecto, Bengzon, Padilla, Tuason and Montemayor, JJ., concur.

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| Stach Szumski Stach Szumski UNITED FIGHTERS AGAINST THE BRUTAL EXPANSION OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS spatial installation, performative situation / 2017 Corpus Gym building, Gałczyńskiego 7 The inhabitants of Brzeźno are perfectly familiar with the Corpus Gym sports club located in a hut, right next to modern apartment blocks. Its members practice sports such as kickboxing or Muay Thai; the most talented ones win trophies at national and international competitions. Furthermore, in cooperation with the Addiction Prevention Centre in Gdańsk, the club runs a programme for troubled youth from Brzeźno and its vicinity. In early May this year, in circumstances that remain unclear, the club was torched. This prompted instant guesswork about who and why could have committed such a reprehensible act. On the wave of speculation, one website created an anonymous poll, asking "Who set fire to Corpus Gym?" and suggesting three types of perpetrators. Irrespective of the suspicions, and in spite of CCTV recordings, the arsonist(s) remain(s) at large. However, instead of giving up, young athletes quickly set about renovating the burnt down building with the support of local entrepreneurs, the District Council and inhabitants of Brzeźno. Faithful to their local identity, they refused an offer from the municipality to move to a much larger building located in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz. When exploring the district, Stach Szumski quickly found traces of fighting equipment consumed by the fire: melted mats, punchbags, charred awards. The artist decided to use them to create a trophy for the Brzeźno warriors, a votive offering expressing his admiration for their fearless fight against the adversities of fate. He combined various threads of this narrative to design a symbol of the fighting community, an emblem of sorts for the young warriors, which was placed inside the club. Apart from sportsmanship and perseverance, Szumski's project also represents the brutal policies on the housing market and the local community united against them. Stach Szumski (b. 1992) is a visual artist and author of murals. He holds a BA from the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy of the Fine Arts in Warsaw. His art is multi-layered, moving from conceptual actions, through which the artist takes a critical look at the standardised aesthetics of first world countries, to intuitive visual practices, used to freely comment on the contemporary world. Szumski has taken part in a number of exhibitions and art projects in Poland and abroad; he is also the author of many murals painted, e.g., in India, Japan and Ukraine. He was born in Gdańsk.

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Sansom Global Sdn. Bhd. was built up in 2013, mainly for health and beauty skincare products. This company was officially established in 2014 and create our own brand which is "Ann's®". Company founder – Ann Chuah, she had set foot in the career of beauty since 2010. She worked as an agent to sell other company's products as a way to run her business. As she gained experience and knowledge, she decided to establish her own company and brand. The main concept of the company is natural health, not only for that but have a good health to enjoy life, you have self-confident only if you have a good appearance.

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FreePass management portal by U-BTech Solutions allows the organization's employees to change and reset their password independently. FREEPASS management portal by U-BTech Solutions allows the organization to provide a friendly interface to the end users so they can change and reset their passwords independently, without the need to contact the helpdesk and while still maintaining privacy and security at the highest level. The portal eliminates the need to contact the support team at the organization and free their valuable time to deal with other IT issues and challenges. The product can be installed on any server that can run IIS 7.0 or higher and supports external publishing through products such as TMG or UAG. If necessary, you can also install the product in a distributed deployment with a front-facing DMZ network. The product supports dealing with password change requests as well as password reset requests. In the case of a password change request, the user is authenticated using Active Directory. In the case of a reset request, the system sends an OTP (One Time Password) with configurable lifetime. The system can monitor all actions in fully documented and detailed logs, which can then be submitted as a report by e-mail. It is also possible to design the user interfaces and web pages as you choose and according to the organization's brand. If the organization does not work with a local Active Directory environment, all of these processes are supported in an Office 365 environment and the public cloud services of Microsoft. At U-BTech Solutions, we invested a lot of time effort, resources and thought to make the product as friendly to the end users as possible and yet meet the most strict standards in terms of security and safety. The product is built using the latest .NET technologies. Suitable for any environment with either an External or Internal Active Directory configuration. To enable internet-facing password management, FREEPASS requires an IIS 7.5 server exposed to the Internet and an internal Windows Server 2008 R2 or higher with .NET 4.5.2 and above able to communicate with the Active Directory. All communication is initiated from inside the network so no ports need to be opened or accessed from outside the organization. Read this PDF guide for installing .net framework and IIS server. Read this PDF Installation guide to see you through the initial setup. Contact us for a special offer and Improve your organization's password management today!

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Chinese Nationals Charged With Illegal Intellectual Property Hacking (Above photo) FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich speaks at a July 21, 2020 press conference announcing charges against Chinese hackers Li Xiaoyu and Dong Jiazhi. Bowdich was joined by other officials, including FBI Seattle Special Agent in Charge Raymond Duda (right). Two Chinese Hackers Working with the Ministry of State Security Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaign Targeting Intellectual Property and Confidential Business Information, Including COVID-19 Research Indictment Alleges Two Hackers Worked With the Guangdong State Security Department (GSSD) of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), While Also Targeting Victims Worldwide for Personal Profit A federal grand jury in Spokane, Washington, returned an indictment earlier this month charging two hackers, both nationals and residents of the People's Republic of China (China), with hacking into the computer systems of hundreds of victim companies, governments, non-governmental organizations, and individual dissidents, clergy, and democratic and human rights activists in the United States and abroad, including Hong Kong and China. The defendants in some instances acted for their own personal financial gain, and in others for the benefit of the MSS or other Chinese government agencies. The hackers stole terabytes of data which comprised a sophisticated and prolific threat to U.S. networks. The 11-count indictment alleges LI Xiaoyu (李啸宇), 34, and DONG Jiazhi (董家志), 33, who were trained in computer applications technologies at the same Chinese university, conducted a hacking campaign lasting more than ten years to the present, targeting companies in countries with high technology industries, including the United States, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Targeted industries included, among others, high tech manufacturing; medical device, civil, and industrial engineering; business, educational, and gaming software; solar energy; pharmaceuticals; defense. In at least one instance, the hackers sought to extort cryptocurrency from a victim entity, by threatening to release the victim's stolen source code on the Internet. More recently, the defendants probed for vulnerabilities in computer networks of companies developing COVID-19 vaccines, testing technology, and treatments. The charges were announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers; FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington William D. Hyslop; and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Seattle Field Division Raymond Duda. "China has now taken its place, alongside Russia, Iran and North Korea, in that shameful club of nations that provide a safe haven for cyber criminals in exchange for those criminals being 'on call' to work for the benefit of the state, here to feed the Chinese Communist party's insatiable hunger for American and other non-Chinese companies' hard-earned intellectual property, including COVID-19 research," said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers. "Today's indictment demonstrates the serious consequences the Chinese MSS and its proxies will face if they continue to deploy malicious cyber tactics to either steal what they cannot create or silence what they do not want to hear," said FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich. "Cybercrimes directed by the Chinese government's intelligence services not only threaten the United States but also every other country that supports fair play, international norms, and the rule of law, and it also seriously undermines China's desire to become a respected leader in world affairs. The FBI and our international partners will not stand idly by to this threat, and we are committed to holding the Chinese government accountable." "The cybercrime hacking occurring here was first discovered on computers of the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Eastern Washington. As the grand jury charged, the computer systems of many businesses, individuals and agencies throughout the United States and worldwide have been hacked and compromised with a huge array of sensitive and valuable trade secrets, technologies, data, and personal information being stolen. The hackers operated from China both for their own gain and with the assistance and for the benefit of the Chinese government's Ministry of State Security. This prosecution is occurring as a result of the combined unwavering efforts of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We seek justice for these victims and others affected and we intend to prosecute these defendants for their alleged crimes," said U.S. Attorney William D. Hyslop for the District Eastern District of Washington. "The complicated nature of cyber investigations is only exacerbated when the criminal is backed by the resources of a foreign government. The nature and value of the material stolen by these hackers cannot just be measured in dollars and was indicative of being state driven. This case demonstrates the FBI's dedication to pursuing these criminals no matter who is sanctioning their activities," said Special Agent in Charge Raymond Duda of the FBI's Seattle Division. According to the indictment, to gain initial access to victim networks, the defendants primarily exploited publicly known software vulnerabilities in popular web server software, web application development suites, and software collaboration programs. In some cases, those vulnerabilities were newly announced, meaning that many users would not have installed patches to correct the vulnerability. The defendants also targeted insecure default configurations in common applications. The defendants used their initial unauthorized access to place malicious web shell programs (e.g., the "China Chopper" web shell) and credential-stealing software on victim networks, which allowed them to remotely execute commands on victim computers. To conceal the theft of information from victim networks and otherwise evade detection, the defendants typically packaged victim data in encrypted Roshal Archive Compressed files (RAR files), changed RAR file and victim documents' names and extensions (e.g., from ".rar" to ".jpg") and system timestamps, and concealed programs and documents at innocuous-seeming locations on victim networks and in victim networks' "recycle bins." The defendants frequently returned to re-victimize companies, government entities, and organizations from which they had previously stolen data, in some cases years after the initial successful data theft. In several instances, however, the defendants were unsuccessful in this regard, due to the efforts of the FBI and network defenders. The indictment charges the defendants with conspiring to steal trade secrets from at least eight known victims, which consisted of technology designs, manufacturing processes, test mechanisms and results, source code, and pharmaceutical chemical structures. Such information would give competitors with a market edge by providing insight into proprietary business plans and savings on research and development costs in creating competing products. The defendants are each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; one count of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets, which carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison; one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; one count of unauthorized access of a computer, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison; and seven counts of aggravated identity theft, which each carries a mandatory sentence of two non-consecutive years in prison. The maximum potential sentences in this case are prescribed by Congress and are provided here for informational purposes only, as any sentencings of the defendants will be determined by the assigned judge. The investigation was conducted jointly by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington, the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, and the FBI's Spokane Resident Agency and San Antonio and Norfolk Field Offices. The FBI's Cyber Division assisted in the investigation and, along with FBI's Cyber Assistant Legal Attachés and Legal Attachés in countries around the world, provided essential support. Numerous victims cooperated and provided valuable assistance in the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Goeke of the Eastern District of Washington and Trial Attorney Scott McCulloch of the National Security Division's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting this case. The details contained in the charging document are allegations. The defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. Source: U.S. Department Of Justice Tags: Asia News, Asian News, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, CCP, Chinese Hacking, Chinese Nationals, FBI, FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich, featured, Guangdong State Security Department (GSSD), Intellectual Property, National Security, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. News, World News Previous Japanese Actor Haruma Miura's Death, Suspected by Suicide Next $5 Million Reward for Information Leading to Arrest of Maikel Jose Moreno Perez

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A.K. Property Services are a licensed property services provider, Licence No. 1442. We are a well-established nationwide firm of Managing Agents, founded in 1999 by Aisling Keenan. Considered to be one of the leading Property Managing Agents in Ireland, we have a reputation built up over the past twenty years based on our performance and expertise. We currently manage a portfolio of properties with value of approximately one billion euro. Our goal is to provide a quality service and the best advice to help our clients in the maintenance and general upkeep of the common areas of their development - including apartment block, residential and commercial estates. We do this by working with the most reputable service contractors in each local area. All administration is carried out at our centrally located head office in Oranmore, Co. Galway.

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All the web pages on this website adhere to the specifications for the HTML version (HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1) specified in the first or second line of the page's HTML code. It is checked using the software A Real Validator, but you can also use W3C's validator service. For the HTML specifications to which each page adheres, see the first or second source line or the list of all pages on this website. An attept was made to have the pages more accessible by more web browsers and devices, readable by most website visitors with various screen sizes and resolutions, as described by the Campaign for a Non-Browser Specific WWW. To verify that pages are accessible to individuals with disabilities, some pages are checked by Bobby, a validation service by CAST. An attept was made to use HTML in a way that makes the document structure apparent. There is only little style specified, such as colors and fonts, so that users' settings of the web browsers are not overridden. Most of the style seen is either your browser's or your choices for representing the page structure. Consideration is given to minimizing the waste of more paper than necessary when pages are printed. Style is specified in a way that without it, the pages are still very readable. What little style is specified is done using style sheets, validated using the W3C CSS Validation Service. Avoided on this website is information that is already elsewhere on the Internet. If relevant, included here are links to that information. Information is included here if it is presented in a different way that has advantages over the same information elsewhere. For example, information may be summarized, relationships may be shown, organization may differ, viewpoints may be more objective, the big picture may be more apparent, or content may be more complete. There are no advertisements on this website. Advertisements are usually inefficient on the world scope. When presented using graphics, they use a significant portion of the Internet bandwidth thereby increasing the time and resources to transfer information, such as loading pages or accessing email. Using advertisements as a source of information is usually detrimental, in that they may be manipulative, misleading, or useless. And, the information usually can be conveyed in a more productive manner. We need a more efficient method to learn about products. If you benefit from the information on a website, consider ways to thank the source, in a written, monetary, or other sign of appreciation. This website's creation and maintenance, including all ideas, research, content, layout, coding, and posting are done by David Cohen. Credit also goes to the software used to edit, validate, transfer, and host the pages, and to the reference documentation on and about the Internet. All the pages were manually typed in the Notepad text editor. Life purpose: Enable people (their potential and their contribution). Highest value: Be fair and kind to people, animals, and the environment. Eat natural food (fresh, unprocessed, whole). Be in a natural environment (fresh air, roam free). Be honest, and don't be very defensive. Diet: Vegan, mostly raw organic fruit and vegetables. The space and service for this website are leased from Digital Space, Corp. The rawDC.org domain name is registered through 000Domains. The first web page here was created on October 15, 1999, and posted at ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dcohen. That URL and web space was provided by CompuServe (my ISP since 1987). A shortcut URL for it is go.ourworld.nu/DCohen. To create the web pages, used initially was CompuServe's software, and later the Notepad text editor. The website was moved to rawDC.org in November 2001 when its access counter was at 290. CompuServe fees were higher than average, and their customer service quality was poor in many ways. The only information saved about visitors to this site is collected by the access counter on the front page (counter data), by the server (your IP address, the time, and the resource you request), and by the contact form (displayed field contents). Information collected is neither shared nor sold. Cookies are neither created nor accessed by this website. This page changed March 15, 2002.

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When you can trade 70,000 MileagePlus miles per person for a pair of United BusinessFirst tickets from Beijing to Newark, you feel as if you have won the lottery. The trip to and from China is quite long, any way you cut it—whether it's made with layovers (if that's your preference) or non-stop (if you have that option.) In fact, the distance between Beijing and the East coast is some 7100 air miles. Given the diminishing size and comfort of airline seats on all carriers, you don't have to be a "seat guru" to realize that you want to make a long trip like this one as painless as possible. On our way to China, we were able to secure reasonably priced Cathay Pacific Premium Economy seats. But for the return segment of our trip, we felt as if we had won the lottery when we realized we could convert 140,000 MileagePlus miles for two seats on United BusinessFirst. We flew United Flight 88, a nonstop B777-200 from Beijing (PEK) to Newark International Airport (EWR). As BusinessFirst passengers, we were also afforded complimentary access to the sprawling China Airlines business lounge in Terminal 3 in Beijing, which was crowded but decent. Of course, seats are the main reason for choosing BusinessFirst tickets. Our plane had no first class seating; instead, United's forward cabin is outfitted with twenty-six 180° lie-flat seats. We sat in Seats 3A and 3B, a window and aisle. Passengers receive amenity packs, full-size pillows, duvets and full-size headphones. The pod-like seats were spacious and comfortable with easy to maneuver controls. Their design helped to effectively buffer us from the rows of passengers in front and in back. The cabin had its own lavatory. While the lie-flat seats don't offer sufficient space to turn over on your side, back sleepers will find the seats uber-comfortable. A trip goes much faster when you've been able to take a long snooze. Before takeoff, we were offered sparkling wine, then a choice of main course for our dinner to come with beer, cocktails or soft drinks. The options were Beijing-style beef, Zhangcha smoked duck, filet of cod, or stir-fried noodles. The five-course meal started off with a fish appetizer, followed by salad, the entrée, a cheese course and dessert. Halfway through the flight, we were offered beef noodle soup. A full breakfast, either American or Chinese with coffee or tea, was served before landing. While plentiful, the food was only marginally better than most "airline food" but it was nice to eat on real china and drink out of glasses instead of plastic cups. An on-demand seatback entertainment system allowed us to choose from among more than more than 100 movies, many recent releases, and a variety of games, TV and audio programs. Our particular flight included a collection of movies curated by the Tribeca Film Festival. Given the slow death of many airline magazines, I was happy to find and read Hemispheres Magazine at my seat. Oversized seatback screens The flight attendants were hard working, gracious and attentive. Safety instructions were offered in both English and Chinese. In the end, the goals of any flight, long haul or not, are to get your destination as quickly, comfortably, conveniently, economically and safely as possible. We were delighted to have an on-time arrival at Newark. Other perks included priority check-in, baggage handling, boarding, and deplaning. Although the design of United's lie-flat seats isn't quite as comfortable or private as the ones we had experienced on British Airways, you can bet we'll be saving our miles for upcoming trips on United's BusinessFirst because it's a great value. MileagePlus Saver Award seats seem to disappear from the website overnight. If you are able to find them, snag them as soon as possible. In comparison, the amount of miles required for standard award (vs. Saver Award) seats would have been 340,000 miles (vs. 140,000) for our two seats. If you can, avoid the center seats in the front row, which align with the lavatory. Seats along the aisle separating the B and C rows offer the best lavatory access. The cabin, like many others, can get quite chilly. Be sure to bring a sweater or light jacket. For more information, including routes, see the United Airlines website. What is it like to fly United p.s. Premium Service? Always love your tips. We are American frequent flyers, but it all feels the same. Sometimes we are too stingy with our miles, the extra comfort is worth it, especially on a long flight! Thank you for the reminder! Safe travels. A good look at an interesting service, Irene. The extra comfort is tempting, especially if you can get it for your rewards miles. But I always wonder if it's really worth the outlay. Since I'm a side sleeper, these lie-flat seats wouldn't help me at all. And it bothers my stomach to eat big meals on planes, so a lot of the value would be lost on me. As an aside, I flew to Beijing (direct) last year in an economy seat on Delta, and while the flights were long, the trip was surprisingly comfortable. They even had a little Chinese language lesson on the entertainment system! As someone over-50, I always worry about DVT—so I really appreciated the extra legroom. I worry about it, too — but the Delta flight had decent legroom, and I'm tall. I guess it depends on what plane you get, though overseas flights tend to get the biggest planes. On DVT, I don't think there's any substitute for getting up and stretching your legs periodically — makes you feel better all over. Hi Irene. yes, I find that paying for the basic travel and using points to upgrade is a great way to go. There's nothing worse than flying 13 hours ant not being able to comfortably rest while in transit. Even if you don't sleep, at least arriving rested gives you stamina to hit the ground running. It's hard using the United points, too. If you pause to blink while you are searching for seats, you may very well lose them!

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It seems that current version does not support that. So I thought it may be a good idea to request such feature. As you know, I can open the file (for example .bashrc) with the internal editor and after edit, save it directly. But what about if I want to edit /etc/apt/sources.list or other text files that need root password? Please consider that for next releases.

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2001 Pacific Dynagon Drew Brees Rookie Card Retail #102 RC Purdue / Saints Qty. Gem Mint DREW BREES ROOKIE CARD New Orleans Saints 2001 PACIFIC DYNAGON NFL RC! Drew Brees 2001 TOPPS Rookie RC PSA 9 MT Saints! HOF?

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I am in awe of this reality and at the same time can look back and admit that despite my best efforts at drama (LOL everyone is doing it that means it must be cool right?) I have always been more or less an observer of this particular human behavior rather than an active participant. I think that Inara once said it best. I just don't like complications. Drama brings with it a slew of complications and really, who has time for that sort of thing? Yet, even if you are not a fan, you get sucked into other people's drama just be virtue of breathing these days. You can't even say good morning to someone without getting a whole litany of woes and impractical advice lobbed your way. It is utterly exhausting. I was actually conversing with another individual who is trying (also) to cut down the negativity in her life and therefore cut down on her own negative reactions and thoughts as well. She pointed out that she does not wake up in a bad mood. She doesn't open her eyes and think, oh god, everything is SO f8cked up I think I'll be negative today! Quite the opposite, her eyes are bright and there is a smile on her face right up until the moment she...encounters the rest of the world. LOL I laughed but there is truth there. Most of us with sharp tongues and wicked thoughts are not truly negative people. I think we are just simply not dull enough to NOT be impacted by the world. There has to be a way to shut it out just enough. There must be a way to be small. Small like I was talking about in another post. Small, focused, in my own universe of my own making and not subject to the craziness of the one I have to operate in on an almost daily basis. I feel like mastering this would be the next level of peace that those of us seeking truth really desire. Beyond world peace even, LOL, personal peace is of utmost importance. So, I'm contemplating how to go about this and right now it is consuming my thoughts. I must figure it out or keep praying for the zombie apocalypse!

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Proud Innovation – Learn from LGBTQ+ innovators | Speaker biographies Braxton T. Fleming CEO, Stealth Bros. & Co. Braxton T. Fleming (he/him) is a licensed practical nurse. He is also the CEO and Founder of Stealth Bros. and Co., a luxury Dopp Kit supply company that provides travel and at-home personal storage for hormone replacement therapy and other medical necessities; he started in 2017 from his room to create a way to become a part of the transgender community and help raise money for his own top surgery. Stealth Bros. and Co. continues to grow and serve the transgender and allied communities. He even offers a surgery fund for those in the LGBTQ+ community in need, and his company is a proud Certified LGBT Business Enterprise of NGLCC. By sharing his experiences, Braxton hopes to inspire other trans people on their journeys and to fill a gap in representation of trans people of color. Peter N. Fowler Senior Counsel for Enforcement, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Peter N. Fowler is a Senior Counsel for Enforcement in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Since joining the USPTO in 1995 as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legislative and International Affairs, he has served in a number of positions in the agency, including Senior Counsel for Enforcement, Regional IP Attaché for Southeast Asia, Chief of Staff, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary and Director, and two stints as Acting Deputy Administrator for External Affairs. He has regularly served as a technical advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative on trade negotiations, including the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Mr. Fowler is admitted to the bar in California, where he practiced law for a decade in San Francisco prior to joining the USPTO. He is a member of the advisory boards of the Golden Gate University School of Law IP and Privacy Law Center, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Region. He has taught at several universities and, from 1988-1995, taught AIDS and the Law, the first ABA-accredited law school course of its kind. He has either authored or co-authored law review articles on such topics as the history of intellectual property in ASEAN, copyright and trade issues, legal history of U.S. immigration laws and gay men, and both a law review article and the chapter on adult adoption as a legal tool for LGBTQ+ individuals in the 1985 landmark legal treatise, "Sexual Orientation and the Law," by Roberta Achtenberg. In his life before the USPTO, Mr. Fowler was one of the founding members of the Stonewall Law Caucus at Golden Gate University, served on the boards of directors of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF), and the San Francisco Bay Area Lesbian and Gay Bar Association, including a term as Co-Chair. From 1983-1989, he was elected to the Board of the National Gay Task Force (now National LGBTQ Task Force), serving as Co-Chair from 1985-1989. During his time on the NGLTF board, he was a proponent of both renaming the organization and relocating its offices from New York to Washington, D.C., and he participated and marched as one of its representatives at the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in October 1987. Mr. Fowler was one of the founders of the National LGBT Bar Association and served as principal organizer of its first Lavender Law® Conference in San Francisco in 1988. From 1985-1995, he served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Educational Foundation for Individual Rights (now Pride Law Fund), which funds scholarships for LGBTQ+ law students and supports the advocacy work of other lesbian and gay legal organizations. In 1992, he was one of the founders and legal counsel for the Lavender Law Project, the first openly LGBTQ+ federal political action committee, which produced and distributed the campaign video, "Out for the Count," to encourage voter registration in the LGBTQ+ community. Over the years, he has served on the board or as legal counsel for such organizations as the Gay Games, Gay Asian Pacific Alliance, SF Project Inform, and Frameline, the corporate organizer of the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (now Frameline Festival), serving as its Interim Executive Director from 1993-1994. Mr. Fowler received his B.A. in Political Science from John Carroll University, M.A. in Education from University of Alabama, and M.A. in Political Science from Ball State University. He did post-graduate work in education at Indiana Wesleyan University and received his J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law, where he wrote for the Golden Gate University Law Review. Jay D. Keasling, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley Jay Keasling is the Philomathia Professor of Alternative Energy at the University of California, Berkeley in the Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, senior faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI). Dr. Keasling's research focuses on the metabolic engineering of microorganisms for degradation of environmental contaminants or for environmentally friendly synthesis of drugs, chemicals, and fuels. Keasling received a B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Nebraska, M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and did post-doctoral research in biochemistry at Stanford University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors. Sabrina Kent Senior Vice President, Corporate Relations, National LGBT Chamber of Commerce As Senior Vice President at the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC), Sabrina Kent (she/her/hers) serves as a member of NGLCC's Executive Leadership and oversees the NGLCC TGNC Inclusion Task Force. Kent works with the organization's Supplier Diversity Initiative and is the liaison to the NGLCC Board of Directors. Kent was recognized by Business Equality Magazine as a 2019 Top 40 LGBT Leader Under 40 and in 2020 by Crain's New York Business in its Notable LGTBQ Leaders and Executives list. Kent serves on the Board of Directors of Q Street. Gavriel Legynd CEO, VisioneerIT Gavriel Legynd is CEO of VisioneerIT, a firm specializing in Technology, Marketing and Digital Security. With 20 years in the technology industry, Gavriel built VisioneerIT with the goal of expanding client brand awareness while drastically optimizing business efficiencies and reducing risks. Gavriel currently serves as an Executive Board member of the Disability Law Center of Virginia and Co-Chair of the NGLCC Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Inclusion Taskforce. He has been a mentor for the American Marketing Association and served as Vice President for the African American Marketing Association.  Mr. Legynd attended George Mason University for his Bachelor's Degree in Journalism, Capital College for his Master's Degree in Network Security, Nova Southeastern for his Ph.D. in Computer Science, and Oakbrook College of Law. He is a passionate advocate for the transgender community, Jews of Color, and those with disabilities. Amita Mehta Founder, Amita Mehta Possible (AMP) Consulting Amita Mehta is a passionate and dynamic business strategist with more than 25 years of experience at premier brands, including Fulton Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and Prudential Financial.  After thriving as a trailblazer in financial services, she left corporate America to launch her own business. She leverages her business acumen and unique perspective as a refugee and lesbian to help individuals from all industries navigate the complexities of job search, guiding them to develop sound strategies, formulate actionable plans, and achieve a path toward career satisfaction. She also consults with organizations to build outcome-based solutions with a focus on cultivating inclusive leadership cultures that integrate employee engagement as part of a unified business strategy. Among her customers and collaborators are corporations, NGOs, and academic, cultural, and philanthropic institutions. Mehta is often invited to speak at organizations and events about authentic leadership and the power of emotional intelligence. As an LGBTQ+ advocate, she serves on the national board of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and the Stonewall Community Foundation. Safi Mojidi Director of Strategic Partnerships, TransTech Safi Mojidi has over 13 years of cybersecurity consulting experience specializing in cloud security and has supported clients such as NASA and the Office of the Vice President. Mojidi gives back to his community by serving as a member of the TransTech Community Advisory Board. As a member of the Community Advisory Board for TransTech Social (TTS), Mojidi's responsibilities include forming strategic partnerships for education, training, and employment opportunities with organizations who support the TTS mission. Besides his professional and social justice activities, he is an adjunct professor who is also pursuing a doctorate in cybersecurity. As a doctoral student and cybersecurity researcher, he is passionate about exploring privacy and preserving technologies utilized by racial/ethnic minorities with a limited understanding of data privacy. Mojidi believes that everyone, especially those from underrepresented demographics, should have an equal opportunity to enjoy the types of economic freedom and employment stability that a career in cybersecurity can provide. Unfortunately, the cybersecurity field is an industry plagued by an alarming lack of representation for black LGBTQ+ individuals. In response to both the lack of diversity and the shortage of qualified cybersecurity practitioners, he founded and serves as the Executive Director of Hacking the Workforce (HtW). HtW's mission is to advocate for the advancement and nontoxic inclusion of black LGBTQ+ individuals into the cybersecurity workforce. What sets HtW apart from other mentor-based organizations is the programing created for the whole person. HTW partners with other LGBTQ+ companies and providers to include mental health, wellness, and financial literacy services. HtW provides much-needed mental health and wellness services and financial literacy training for black members of the LGBTQ+ community whose lives can change dramatically once they enter the cybersecurity industry. The mental health offerings aim to provide the tools to combat imposter syndrome and enable Folx to overcome the personal, social, and emotional challenges of being an underrepresented minority in cybersecurity. HtW mentees will learn the basics of money management; these tools help lay a foundation for building healthy relationships with their finances, avoiding practices that may lead to lifelong money struggles, and introducing to mechanisms needed to create generational wealth. The program has been operating since early 2020, but will be officially launching with a new cohort in late 2021. Frederick Steckler Chief Administrative Officer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Fred Steckler is the Chief Administrative Officer for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He is responsible for the delivery of all administrative service support functions for USPTO, including human capital strategy, human resource management, telework policy and programs, facilities management, safety and security, transportation, asset and records management. Mr. Steckler joined USPTO from the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, where he served as an Executive Advisor in the Organization and Strategy Team's Human Capital and Learning Practice. Prior to Booz Allen, he was the Director of Account Development and Management for the Government Consulting Services Unit of Watson Wyatt Worldwide. Before Watson Wyatt, Mr. Steckler served as the General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration and Deputy Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In addition to HUD, he has held consulting and business operations positions with IBM and Coopers & Lybrand. Mr. Steckler also served as the Executive Director of Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry, a non-profit community service organization in Northern Virginia. Mr. Steckler began his career as a shipboard officer in the U.S. Navy and was a member of the commissioning crew of the USS Vandegrift (FFG-48). He later served as Second Company Officer and then Executive Assistant to The Commandant of Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy. Mr. Steckler received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Duke University and a Master of Business Administration from The George Washington University. Dirk Trauner, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Chemistry and Neuroscience, New York University Dirk Trauner was born and raised in Linz, Austria, studied biology and chemistry at the University of Vienna, and received his Master's Degree in Chemistry from the Free University, Berlin. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Chemistry under the direction of Professor Johann Mulzer, with whom he moved to the University of Frankfurt and then back to Vienna. Subsequently, he became a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Samuel J. Danishefsky at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. After two years in New York City, Trauner joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he rose through the ranks to become an Associate Professor of Chemistry and a member of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In the summer of 2008, he moved to the University of Munich, where he served as a Professor of Chemical Biology and Chemical Genetics. In March of 2017, he returned to the U.S. to become the Janice Cutler Chair of Chemistry at New York University. He also holds a position as an Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience at the NYU Langone Medical School. He is a member of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Academia of Sciences, and a recipient of the Otto Bayer Award, the Emil Fischer Medal, and a Sloan Fellowship. The broad objective of Trauner's research is to demonstrate the awesome power of chemical synthesis and to use it toward the precision control of biological pathways. Sean Whelan, Ph.D. Chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and the Marvin A. Brennecke Distinguished Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Sean Whelan received his B.Sc. degree in Microbiology and Biochemistry from the University of Birmingham and a Ph.D. in Molecular Virology from the University of Reading. Following postdoctoral training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he started his own laboratory at Harvard Medical School (HMS) where he was promoted to Professor in 2011. At HMS, Whelan was Head of the Program in Virology and Director of an NIH-funded center on emerging virus entry mechanisms. In 2020, he joined Washington University in Saint Louis. He is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology, an Editor of Fields Virology, Virology, and PLoS Pathogens and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Virology. He pioneered reverse genetic approaches to manipulate the genome of vesicular stomatitis virus—this work led to the field domesticating the virus as a vaccine vector and oncolytic agent, and one licensed human vaccine against Ebola has been developed using this technology. Whelan's group used this genetic system to develop biosafety level 2 reporter viruses against 80 viral pathogens, including several biosafety level 3 and 4 emerging viruses. Using those viruses, his laboratory identified the cellular receptors for Ebola, Lassa, and Lujo viruses and for the endogenous human retrovirus, HERV-K. Whelan's group also pioneered structural studies of the replication machinery of non-segmented negative-strand RNA viruses using negative-stain electron microscopy and electron cryromicrosopy—where he solved the atomic structures of vesicular stomatitis virus and rabies virus polymerases. Most recently Whelan's group has built upon the VSV platform approach developing a BSL2 reporter of SARS-CoV-2 entry and neutralization by antibodies and receptors. Whelan's group has advanced this VSV-SARS-CoV-2 vector as a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 demonstrating efficacy in mouse models of disease with the Diamond laboratory, and advanced testing of this vaccine in non-human primates. Sean Wilkerson Innovation Development Program Manager, Office of Innovation Outreach, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Sean Wilkerson works in the Office of Innovation Outreach at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), creating intellectual property (IP) awareness programs and managing outreach services to independent inventors, small businesses, entrepreneurs, makers, and universities. Mr. Wilkerson previously worked as an outreach coordinator for the programs leading up to the opening of the USPTO's Silicon Valley and Texas Regional Offices. He also spent a year as part of the New York engagement team that developed the 2015 Future of Urban Innovation Startups Summit in coordination with Columbia University and the USPTO. From 2011–2013, he served as the program manager of the inaugural Select USA Summit, developing the program, structure, and outreach efforts of a U.S. government-wide program housed in the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. As an education program analyst in the Global Intellectual Property Academy from 2008–2011, he managed international programs focused on providing IP training related to enforcement of patents, trademarks, and copyrights and the U.S. patent and trademark system. Prior to working for the federal government, he served as the Director of Events for the National Association of Homebuilders in Washington, D.C. and as the Ideas Exchange Manager for Accenture in Reston, Virginia. Submit feedback about this page to Inventor Resources. Published on: Jun 24, 2021 07:46 AM EDT Last Modified: May 27, 2022 12:41 PM EDT

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History, traditions Bankrupt Empire maintains thousand bases abroad At the same time that its debt has reached an amount equivalent to the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the U.S., $14 trillion, the U.S. (United States) maintains no less than a thousand military bases overseas, including 268 in Germany and 124 in Japan, 66 years after the end of World War 2. Once they get in, they never leave By Durval de Noronha Goyos* Other funding recipients of the despicable and devastating U.S. presence are Cuba, Paraguay, Colombia, Iraq (over 100), Afghanistan (about 80), South Korea, Australia, Egypt, Bahrain, Greece and Romania, among nearly 70 States. The U.S. military cost for the year 2010 was about $800 billion, plus extraordinary expenses placed in the budget that year by President Barack Obama was U.S. $1 trillion, which in total is equal to approximately 13% of the GDP of the country! U.S. military spending accounted for about 45% of global spending in 2010. Their allies spent approximately 28% of contributions to defense in the same year. So the U.S., its allies and client states that are equally today in an insolvency situation, accounted for 73% of global military expenditures in 2010. At the end of 2008, the U.S. kept about 550,000 troops abroad, excluding the services of mercenaries used in some countries like Iraq. This number is 10% higher than in 1985, during the height of the Cold War, which shows that the U.S. military-industrial complex found justifications for the maintenance and even expansion of military power of the country, even in the phase of detente in the international political scene.. Today, the command organization of the U.S. military considers PACOM (Pacific Command), which is used to threaten China; EUCOM (European Command), which is structured to threaten Russia and Africa; CENTCOM (Command Central), which is used to threaten and intervene in the Middle East, the SOUTHCOM (Southern Command), created in July 2008, shortly after the announcement of major pre-salt discoveries in Brazil, to threaten us as all as well as Brazil, along with the peaceful peoples of Central and South America. British historian Paul Kennedy in The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, written in 1986, said the big test of the longevity of a hegemonic power in the world would be equally applicable to the future of the U.S.A. This test consists of whether, on the other hand, if the country concerned is able to maintain a reasonable balance between their perceived needs and the means with which they have to finance them. On the other hand, the test is related to the ability to preserve the technological and economic bases of its power. It seems clear that in 2011, the U.S. cannot pass the test due to these two questions. In fact, with debt capacity exhausted and being compelled to issue money to buy the bonds it has issued, the U.S. today is financially dependent on countries such as China, Brazil and Russia, not allies. Will these countries accept financing the maintenance of a military complex that threatens them? Commenting on the fall of the Roman Empire, the great Edward Gibbon in his classic The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, noted that "the decline of Rome was the inevitable effect of immoderate grandeur." Prosperity ripened into the beginning of decadence. The causes of the destruction were multiplied by the extension of conquest, and as time or accidents removed the artificial pillars, the stupendous fabric yielded under its own weight." Gibbon's remarks fit the situation where the U.S. currently is like a glove. *Durval de Noronha Goyos Jr. is a lawyer admitted in Brazil, Portugal and England and Wales. The Referee is from Brazil's WTO (World Trade Organization), and professor of international trade law in graduate school at the University Cândido Mendes (RJ). Source: Vermelho

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Oasis - Knebworth 1996 Triple Album 3LP 180 Gram Vinyl Records Knebworth 1996 is the second live album by English rock band Oasis, released in November 2021 via Big Brother Records. Archival live album from the Manchester, UK Britpop legends, released in conjunction with the full-length documentary "Oasis Knebworth 1996", capturing two headlining UK festival performances at the height of their popularity. The live album contains the hits "Champagne Supernova" and "Don't Look Back In Anger," plus orchestra-backed versions of "Wonderwall" and The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus." Oasis has sold 70M+ albums worldwide and won seventeen NME Awards, nine Q Awards, and six Brit Awards, including "Best Album of the Last 30 Years" for their 4x US Platinum 1995 album What's the Story (Morning Glory), ranked by Rolling Stone and Spin among the greatest albums of all time. This triple album 3LP record set is on 180 gram heavyweight black vinyl housed in a tri-fold gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves, pressed in the US via Big Brother. Acquiesce Some Might Say Slide Away Round Are Way Cigarettes & Alcohol Cast No Shadow The Masterplan Don't Look Back In Anger My Big Mouth It's Gettin' Better (Man!!) Champagne Supernova Record Label Big Brother Records Label / Model # Sony Catalogue Number RKIDLP98 Release Date (Year) 14 January 2022 Original Release Date (Year) 19 November 2021 Format Limited Edition Triple Album 3LP Records, 180 Gram Heavyweight Black Vinyl, Tri-Fold Gatefold Sleeve, Printed Inner Sleeves Genre Rock & Popular Oasis - Be Here Now Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets - Live At Th

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Women in Uniform: Revolutionary & I Shall Be Near to You It would be easy to read Revolutionary, a novel about a woman who disguises herself as a man and enlists as a soldier during the tail end of the Revolutionary War, through a trans prism—especially since the author, Alex Myers, has told The Daily Beast that his own experiences as a transgender person informed his understanding of the real-life Deborah Samson, "how she might have felt as she tried to pass, to belong to this group of men at West Point." Easy, but too simplistic. "I don't think that Deborah was transgender," Myers immediately clarified. "I wanted to be very cautious not to transpose my 21st century notions of transgender identity onto her late-18th century notions of sexuality." Though Deborah becomes so deeply invested in her adopted identity as Robert Shurtliff—"Robert after a favorite uncle, Shurtliff a middle name come down through the generations"—that the novel's close third-person narration begins referring to her as "he," Robert never considers himself to be a man in a woman's body. By living as a man, however, Robert comes to enjoy a freedom that simply isn't available to an unmarried young woman in colonial Massachusetts. "How easily men could say no," Deborah observes early in her military career, "how readily they did as they pleased." And yet, Robert tells another character who discovers his secret much later, "perhaps if society treated women differently, I wouldn't mind being a woman." (In the same way that he avoids defining Deborah/Robert's gender identity in modern terms, Myers is careful in his portrayals of sexual identity. Though Deborah's closest relationship back home, with a young woman named Jennie, is emotionally intense and physically intimate, it's never portrayed as a lesbian relationship, nor does Robert imagine marriage to Jennie as a possibility.) 24 February 2014 | read this | Life Stories #64: Janet Mock Subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes photo: Aaron Tredwell I recorded this episode of Life Stories with Janet Mock the morning after a particularly contentious interview with Piers Morgan, who just couldn't seem to wrap his head around why it might be offensive to refer to a transgender woman as having been "born a boy." So one of the first things we did in that conversation was to reframe the issue, discussing what it's like to have a self-identity that's so thoroughly contradicted by what the rest of the world expects you to be. The story Mock tells in Redefining Realness isn't about "becoming" a woman, or "transitioning" into womanhood, but about the struggle to live her life on her own terms, to be the person she knew herself to be. You can read some of the highlights from our conversation in this Buzzfeed Books feature on Mock—as always, please show your friends that URL, because it ultimately leads to more Life Stories episodes—but I really hope you'll give this interview a listen. And if you've heard the previous episode with Leah Vincent, I think you'll recognize some common ground in their stories; these two remarkable young women have overcome childhood environments that seemed bent upon preventing them from expressing their true identities, and they've fought back hard against that and come out victorious, but at a powerful emotional cost. Listen to Life Stories #64: Janet Mock (MP3 file); or download this file by right-clicking (Mac users, option-click). Or subscribe to Life Stories in iTunes, where you can catch up with earlier episodes and be alerted whenever a new one is released. (And if you are an iTunes subscriber, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast!) 18 February 2014 | life stories |

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Articles March 2009 Conducting Clinic: Overconducting, Getting in the Way of the Music "I do not always cue. If a director cues every entrance, the ensemble members rely on the cue and quit thinking for themselves." Amazing Music at Roxbury High, An Interview with Todd Nichols The director of the first New Jersey band ever invited to perform at the Midwest Clinic discusses Roxbury's fascinating music program. Video Recording in the Music Room Teachers can use video to record rehearsals or lessons for students to review at home, and recordings of concerts or recitals can be used as a recruiting tool. Percussion Clinic: Percussion Rolls This look at correct rolling techniques covers everything from snare drum and timpani to tam tam and castanets. Balance Goals with Experience "It can be difficult for new teachers to remember that they have at least 30 years of teaching to perfect what they want to do." Musical World Records Such official records as the largest playable accordion or the fastest bassoon player pale in comparison to some of Trey's current and former students. Remembering Richard Hickox

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package ru.job4j.musicCourt.domain; import java.io.Serializable; public abstract class Model implements Serializable{ private int id; public Model() { } public Model(int id) { this.id = id; } public int getId() { return id; } public void setId(int id) { this.id = id; } @Override public boolean equals(Object o) { if (this == o) return true; if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false; Model model = (Model) o; return id == model.id; } @Override public int hashCode() { return id; } }

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Twelve of the employees who work for the juvenile division of the 32nd Judicial Circuit are paid through state grants. The grant employees are teachers who tutor juveniles after school. The division employs six full-time deputy juvenile officers. Under the Missouri Circuit Court Budget Committee's new formula for allocating funding, those grant employees are now counted as staff. The 12 grant employees add up to 4 1/2 additional full-time employees for the circuit, which includes Cape Girardeau, Bollinger and Perry counties. The budget committee now views the 32nd circuit's juvenile division as overstaffed, so the state intends to reallocate five of the positions to other circuits through attrition. The positions lost almost certainly will belong to the tutors. Juvenile officer Randy Rhodes points out that juvenile officers and tutors are not interchangeable. Rhodes and Circuit Judge Benjamin Lewis are both critical of this decision, which essentially penalizes the circuit's juvenile office for taking advantage of every resource available to it. Our juvenile justice system is a good one. Besides being patently unfair, this new approach to budgeting for the circuit courts will only cost the juveniles the system is supposed to help.

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Designing AI Conversations By DC Design Week Wed, October 24, 2018, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT Gensler 2020 K Street NW Washington, DC 20006 50 years since Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi epic '2001: A Space Odyssey' was made, smart devices are slowly becoming part of our daily lives. From Alexa and Siri to Google Assistant, every major tech company has poured resources into developing voice user interfaces that use conversational AI and machine learning to predict what we want and assist us in our daily lives. Join speakers from The Washington Post, NPR and Capital One as they showcase their most innovative voice enabled products and conversational AI's. followed by a panel discussion that explores the processes, challenges and ethics of designing for conversation. Joey Marburger @josephjames Director of Product, The Washington Post Joey Marburger was labeled as The Washington Post's punk rock star by Digiday for the work he's accomplished as Director of Product. During his time at The Post, there has been immense growth which Columbia Journalism Review called a 'revolution.' Most recently, Fast Company placed him at number 13 on their Most Creative People in Business 2017 list. Marburger leads a team of product designers and managers overseeing the development and design of digital products such as washingtonpost.com, Android and iOS apps, distributed news, and a variety of other platforms. He has been at The Post for more than eight years, moving from Mobile Design Director to Director of Digital Products and Design to his current role. He has also worked at Gannett and the Indianapolis Star. He lives in Northeast D.C. with his wife, Cas, the social media manager for the Truth Initiative Foundation, and their black Labrador retriever, Walt. Audra Koklys Plummer @audrakoklysplummer Head of AI Design, Capital One Audra is Head of AI Design and leads the team designing Capital One's Conversational AI. This includes Eno, the first gender-neutral, intelligent assistant from a U.S. Bank, and the Capital One skills on Alexa and Cortana. Before joining Capital One, Audra spent 20+ years working as a filmmaker for studios like Pixar, DreamWorks and Lucasfilm, and as a documentarian flying search and rescue missions with the U.S. Coast Guard. Despite being a freak accident magnet she lives a quiet life in Falls Church, VA, and is often overheard telling her three amazing children she's not home so she can write and drink her chai lattes in peace. Ha-Hoa Hamano @hahoais Senior Product Manager, NPR Digital Media Ha-Hoa Hamano has been spurring efforts to make NPR accessible to users on a range of new platforms, including connected cars and smart TVs. In 2017, she played a crucial part in NPR's push to bring its vast world of content to smart speakers, where NPR is a top option for news updates on all major platforms. Brockette Horne @brocketthorne Chair, Graphic Design, MICA Brockett Horne is a designer, educator, and writer. She serves as chair of graphic design at MICA, where she teaches fierce sophomores and daring juniors. She has been exhibited and honored with multiple design awards, is a past Rotary International Scholar, and has work in the permanent collection of the RISD Museum of Art. Her creative work is inspired by a desire to encourage the spectator to learn while looking. Clients include the Baltimore Museum of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Polaris Project, and the Taproot Foundation, among others. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MA from the Bard graduate Center (with double thesae in art history and graphic design). District of Columbia Events Things to do in Washington, DC DC Design Week It's A Date: Healthysexual Conversations The D.E.N.I.M. 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Norman Wait Harris (August 15, 1846 – July 15, 1916) was an American banker. He founded Chicago-based N.W. Harris & Co., the predecessor of Harris Bank as well as its affiliate Harris, Forbes & Co. and later Harris, Hall & Co. Biography Harris was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts in 1846, to Nathan Wait Harris and C. Emeline Wadsworth Harris. Harris was educated at Westfield Academy, graduating at age 17 to pursue a career in business. In 1867, at age 21, Harris joined the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati, which he helped to found, as secretary. In 1882, Harris founded the banking firm that would bear his name, N.W. Harris & Co. The firm was initially based in Chicago and would later open offices in New York City and Boston. In 1907, Harris reorganized his banking business, founding the Harris Trust and Savings Bank, based in Chicago and Harris, Forbes & Co. based in New York. Harris was also a director of AT&T. In 1916, during a tour of Asia, Harris suffered a heart attack in Japan. He arrived in Seattle in May 1916, where he remained briefly before returning home. Harris died just two months later in July 1916 at his summer home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. He is interred at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. Philanthropy In his later years, Harris was a philanthropist supporting a wide range of institutions, particularly in Chicago. Harris made substantial gifts to the University of Chicago, which in 1924 endowed an "Institute of Politics"; the Field Museum, where a $250,000 gift was used to fund a public school expansion; and the YMCA. In 1913, Harris gave $250,000 to Northwestern University for the construction of Harris Hall of Political Science and History (today known as Harris Hall), which is located at the front gate of the University. Harris also gave a substantial gift to the Chicago Training School for Home and Foreign Missions, the largest training school of its kind for Methodist missionaries in the United States. Harris, who was actively involved with the Methodist Episcopal Church, donated the land for the construction of its main campus and chapel. References External links Harris-Maclean Family Papers at the Newberry Library Guide to the Norman Wait Harris Foundation Records 1923-1956 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center 1846 births 1916 deaths People from Becket, Massachusetts Bank of Montreal American investment bankers 19th-century American businesspeople Burials at Rosehill Cemetery

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← Records Are There To Be Broken… So What's Next? Quite often I feel as though I never have any free time. Well, when I say free time, I guess I really mean spare time. That's spare time to do something else. You see, I have a list of tasks that I need to do, or possibly want to do. In fact, I have many lists. I even have a list of lists. Fortunately I haven't yet reached the point of needing lists of my lists of lists. For some reason I seem to struggle to organise my time at home. I try to make time to work through all the tasks I have to do, but I fail on so many levels. I think one reason is simply because I always put my family first, and I'm fine with that. I definitely never want it to be any other way. I like to think I'm the type of husband and dad who'll be there, no matter what. Now, obviously this can be a major distraction from my ever growing list of things to do. And of course it is. And that's fine too, in a round about sort of way. I say this because I consistently tell myself that I'll get on with my bits once everyone else has been sorted out. So basically that's once they've all either settled down for the evening in front of the TV, or retired to bed for a good night's sleep. That's when my "spare time" begins. Unfortunately, whilst this sounds fine it does have some consequences. For instance, I can't do anything that will result in making a loud noise. Like decorating for example, or putting up a few shelves, or even printing some of my artwork for that matter. It just wouldn't work. Well it would, but I clearly wouldn't be thanked for it. Plus, this so called spare time is at the worst time of the day. Once night falls and I work out what I'm going to do, I'm just too exhausted to concentrate on doing any of it. Now, writing is another task on my list, and pretty high up on it too. Take my blog for instance. I can easily think of a topic to write about next but it's finding the right moment to sit down and actually write it up, or jot it down… whichever is correct. It just becomes a bit of a struggle for me. So therefore the end result is that my list gets longer. My next blog post doesn't happen. The house looks the same as it did last year… and the year before that. So until I get my own time in order and do what I should, or could, be doing I won't be crossing off any task from any of my lists for a little while yet. You see, that's a task in itself… to look at how I can manage my lists better. Oh dear, I'd better add that to the list now too. So in the meantime, please talk amongst yourselves and wait for my next blog post. Oh hang on, I've just written it. Well how on Earth did I manage that? This entry was posted in Cajuzi, Home Life and tagged Cajuzi, Family, Lists, Tasks, Time. Bookmark the permalink. Procrastination is the bane of us all. To Do lists are fine, but it means you have actually look at them. Setting alarms helps too. As with everything, prioritizing is key, and you already know that. Too many lists? Make a master one (been there), and prioritize them too, sort of like bubbles in a bubble, or branches of a tree, or whatever analogy you care to pose. In the meantime, you can invest in earplugs! Cheers! Have just read you blog and I know exactly where your coming from. It's good to know that I'm not alone. Many thanks Jenni and it's good to know I'm not alone too! Oh, yes… Oh yes, yes, yes! I've been living off that same rule of procrastination for about 50 years of writing and 30 of insurance selling. It's all too human and all too sad, especially when you look back and find out that back is waaaaaaaaaay back and, damn it! but you haven't changed a whit! Oh, yes, I'm an expert in tomorrows! Good post, though and a fun blog! Hi Jay, many thanks for that! Really appreciated and good to know there are more of us out there. Glad you enjoy the blog!

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Greek yiros without lamb is not only possible, but proving very popular with Staazi & Co -Adelaide's Greek Vegan Project. Anastasia Lavrentiadis – "and my many, many supporters" – have been establishing a reputation for their mainly traditional Greek food at events, pubs and more. Not to forget her vegan yiros and chips. Anastasia, who gives her name to the project, will be the Producer in Residence at the Adelaide Central Market from Tuesday 7 August.

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So lets talk about the method of send large files email. First of all visit Google Drive and sign in with your Google Account. Now after log in to your account you will see an upload button there, click on it and select the file you want to upload to share it with someone. Now you will see uploading process there at the bottom right corner. And you can even select another file to upload. Wait for the upload to complete. Now after the file being uploaded click on the share button at the share settings and you can also set the provacy of the sile in which you can set who can access the file that is you can either set it as public or private. Now you can send the file directly through the gmail and also when you click on share option button there will be sending option like Facebook, twitter too. Also if you are using mobile app of Google drive there will be a option to send file even through whatsapp ,we chat and Facebook messenger etc too. How To Send Large File Through Email – So above is all about to send large files email. By this method you can easily send large file through the email portals like gmail and also you ca share the direct downloading link of the file with your friend with any social media. And the best part is that there will be no limit on the file to be send.Don't forget to share this cool post and leave a comment below if you have any related queries.

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The course is limited to 20 students. You will be practicing in an intimate setting with a supportive group of people who share the goal of incorporating more mindfulness into their lives and gradually achieving a sense of inner peace and calm as well as greater ease in the body. This training is the second of three parts that will earn you a Mindfulness Meditation and Relaxation Instructor Certificate.

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STATEFED COVID-19 Economic Relief Bill | Health and Human Services Legislative Provisions Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 | HHS Appropriations Provisions Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 Health and Human Services Legislative Provisions Summary | PDF Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 Health and Human Services Appropriations Provisions Summary | PDF Haley Nicholson Margaret Wile At the end of 2020, both chambers of Congress came together and passed coronavirus relief and appropriations funding. Between the two bills, there were 5,600 pages containing many health and human services provisions and funding allocations. Health issues in the legislation ranged from prescription drug costs to strengthening parity in mental health. Many of the items, including funding for several essential health programs, also known as the "extenders," were well past their timeline to receive funding. Human services legislation ranged from Family First Prevention Services waivers and funding to additional child care funding. Below is a breakdown of the health and human services funding and legislative provisions included in this legislative package. Legislative Provisions Provisions Supporting Foster Youth and Families Through the Pandemic John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood (Chafee): Provides an additional $350 million for the John H. Chafee Foster Care Program for Successful Transition to Adulthood Chafee and an additional $50 million for the John H. Chafee Educational and Training Vouchers Program for Youths Aging out of Foster Care (Chafee ETV) without additional appropriations action. It also waives the state match requirement for these additional funds. It increases the maximum Chafee ETV award amount from $5,000 up to $12,000 per youth per year for training and postsecondary education for eligible foster youth, exempts National Youth in Transition Database penalty assessments from these additional funds and raises the maximum age through 26 for Chafee-eligible former foster youth. It also reserves funding for technical assistance, evaluation and monitoring of state child welfare programs, including $500,000 to help them set up youth driving programs. It temporarily provides the following necessary programmatic flexibilities for older youth in foster care: Suspends certain training and postsecondary education requirements. Clarifies that under these provisions, the Chafee ETV vouchers may be used to maintain training and postsecondary education costs, as well as to support programs to allow foster youth to drive. Lifts the 30% spending cap n housing costs. Temporary freeze on older youth "aging out": Provides older foster youth who would normally "age out" with the assurance that they may continue to receive foster care supports and services during the pandemic, or, if they left, may return. It permits states to use pandemic Chafee funds to offset the cost of meeting this requirement for youth for whom federal foster care matching is not available. Temporary Waiving State Matching Funds for Family First Prevention Services: Temporarily waives the match for Family First Prevention Services until the end of the public health emergency period. MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program: Provides an additional $85 million in emergency FY 2021 funding for the MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families program, which would be available through the end of fiscal year 2021. It waives state matching requirements for the emergency funds and specifies that FY 2022 funding would be provided at the non-emergency level. Court Improvement Program: Reserves $10 million from the $85 million in the preceding section for the federal Court Improvement Program and waives the state matching requirement for the emergency funds. Temporary waiving of state match for Prevention Services Clearinghouse: Temporarily waives the required state match and the requirement that the specific model be in the federal Prevention Services Clearinghouse for kinship navigator programs funded with FY 2020 funds. The section maintains that programs not in the clearinghouse be under evaluation or begin an evaluation to be funded. The evaluation costs are included under federal funds. Title IV- E Technical Correction: Makes a technical correction to Title IV-E treatment of the 6.2% Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) rate increase from the Families First Coronavirus Response Act such that it applies to the baseline based on annual average FMAP rate in the state for FY 2020 and FY 2021, to ensure access to Funding Certainty Grants, which are grants that were created out of the Family First Transition Act. Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Flexibilities: Provides needed flexibilities to home visiting programs funded by the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program, to allow them to serve at-risk pregnant women and families during the pandemic for the duration of the public health emergency period. Technical Correction: Provides the District of Columbia with the same adjustment as states to its matching rate for services provided under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act as states. Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities: Includes the text of HR 4300, the "Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act of 2019," would provide "on-demand" vouchers to foster youth who are at risk of homelessness as they transition to adulthood, and would extend the voucher assistance for up to an additional two years if they participate in self-sufficiency activities. Private Health Insurance and Public Health Provisions Health insurance requirements for surprise medical billing: Requires health plans to hold patients harmless from surprise medical bills. Patients will only be required to pay the in-network cost-sharing (i.e., co-payment, coinsurance and deductibles) amount for out-of-network emergency care, for certain ancillary services provided by out-of-network providers at in-network facilities, and for out-of-network care provided at in-network facilities without the patient's informed consent. It also requires that patients' in-network cost-sharing payments for out-of-network surprise bills are attributed to a patient's in-network deductible. Out-of-network rates and independent dispute resolution process: Provides for a 30-day open negotiation period for providers and payers to settle out-of-network claims. It also states that if the parties are unable to reach a negotiated agreement, they may access a binding arbitration process–referred to as independent dispute resolution (IDR)–in which one offer prevails. Providers may batch similar services in one proceeding when claims are from the same payer. The IDR process will be administered by independent, unbiased entities with no affiliation to providers or payers. The IDR entity is required to consider: The market-based median in-network rate alongside relevant information brought by either party. Information requested by the reviewer. The provider's training and experience. Patient acuity and the complexity of furnishing the item or service. In case a provider is a facility: Provide the teaching status, case mix and scope of services of such facility. Demonstrations of good faith efforts (or lack of good faith efforts) to enter into a network agreement. Prior contracted rates during the previous four plan years. Other items. Billed charges and public payer rates are excluded from consideration. Following the IDR, the party that initiated the IDR may not take the same party to the IDR for the same item or service for 90 days following a determination by the IDR entity, to encourage settlement of similar claims. All claims that occur during that 90-day period may still be eligible for the IDR upon completion of the 90-day period. Health care provider requirements regarding surprise medical billing: Prohibits out-of-network facilities and providers from sending patients surprise bills for more than the in-network cost-sharing amount, in the surprise billing circumstances defined in Sec. 102. It also prohibits certain out-of-network providers from surprise billing patients unless the provider gives the patient notice of their network status and an estimate of charges 72 hours prior to receiving out-of-network services and the patient provides consent to receive out-of-network care. In the case of appointments made within 72 hours of receiving services, the patient must receive the notice the day the appointment is made and consent to receive out-of-network care. Ending surprise air ambulance bills: States that patients are held harmless from surprise air ambulance medical bills. Patients are only required to pay the in-network cost-sharing amount for out-of-network air ambulances, and that cost-sharing amount is applied to their in-network deductible. Air ambulances are barred from sending patients surprise bills for more than the in-network cost-sharing amount. It also provides for a 30-day open negotiation period for air ambulance providers and payers to settle out-of-network claims. If the parties are unable to reach a negotiated agreement, they may access the binding arbitration, with additional factors to account for the cost of providing air ambulance service in rural and frontier areas. Reporting requirements regarding air ambulance services: Requires air ambulance providers to submit two years of cost data to the secretaries of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Transportation. Insurers are required to submit two years of claims data related to air ambulance services to the secretary of HHS. The section requires the secretaries to publish a comprehensive report on the cost and claims data submitted, and it also establishes an advisory committee on air ambulance quality and patient safety. Transparency regarding in-network and out-of-network deductibles and out-of-pocket limitations: States that a group or individual health plan shall include on their plan or issued insurance identification card, the amount of the in-network and out-of-network deductibles and the in-network and out-of-network out-of-pocket maximum limitations. Implementing protections against provider discrimination: Requires the secretaries of HHS, the Department of Labor (DOL), and Department of Treasury to promulgate a rule, no later than Jan. 1, 2022, implementing protections against provider discrimination. Surprise Billing Reports: Requires the secretary of HHS, in consultation with the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. attorney general to conduct a study no later than Jan. 1, 2023, and annually, thereafter for the following four years on the effects of the provisions in the Act. It also requires the GAO to submit to Congress a report on the impact of surprise billing provisions and a report on adequacy of provider networks. Consumer protections through application of health plan external review in cases of certain surprise medical bills: Allows for an external review to determine whether surprise billing protections are applicable when there is an adverse determination by a health plan beginning no later than Jan. 1, 2022. Consumer protections through health plan requirement for fair and honest advance cost estimate: Requires health plans to provide an advance Explanation of Benefits for scheduled services at least three days in advance to give patients transparency into which providers are expected to provide treatment, the expected cost and the network status of the providers. Patient protections through transparency and patient-provider dispute resolution: Health care providers and facilities must verify, three days in advance of service and no later than one day after scheduling of service, what type of coverage the patient is enrolled in and provide notification of a good faith estimate to the payer or patient whether the patient has coverage. It also requires the secretary of HHS to establish a patient-provider dispute resolution process for uninsured individuals no later than Jan. 1, 2022. Ensuring continuity of care: If a provider changes network status, patients with complex care needs have up to a 90-day period of continued coverage at in-network cost-sharing to allow for a transition of care to an in-network provider. Maintenance of price comparison tool: Requires health plans to offer a price comparison tool for consumers. State all-payer claims databases (APCDs): Establishes a grant program to create and improve state APCDs. It also requires recipients of the grants from this program to make data available to authorized users, including researchers, employers, health insurance issuers, third-party administrators, and health care providers for quality improvement and cost-containment purposes. The secretary of HHS may waive these requirements if a state APCDs is substantially in compliance. It also requires the secretary of DOL to convene an advisory committee and develop a standardized format for voluntary reporting by group health plans to state APCD. Protecting patients and improving the accuracy of provider directory information: Requires health plans to have up-to-date directories of their in-network providers, which shall be available to patients online, or within one business day of an inquiry. If a patient provides documentation that they received incorrect information from a plan about a provider's network status prior to a visit, the patient will only be responsible for the in-network cost-sharing amount. Advisory committee on ground ambulance and patient billing: Requires the secretaries of HHS, the DOL and Treasury to establish an advisory committee for reviewing options to improve disclosure of charges and fees for ground ambulance services, inform consumers of insurance options for such services and protect consumers from surprise billing. It also requires a report on recommendations from the committee not later than 180 days after the first meeting. Implementation funding: Provides funding to the secretaries of HHS, the DOL and Treasury for purposes of carrying out the amendments made by the "No Surprises Act," including: Preparing, drafting and issuing proposed and final regulations or interim regulations. Preparing, drafting and issuing guidance and public information. Preparing and holding public meetings. Preparing, drafting and publishing reports and enforcement of such provisions. Reporting, collecting and analyzing the data. Establishment and implementation of processes for independent dispute resolution and implementation of patient-provider dispute resolution. Conducting audits, and other administrative duties necessary for implementation. Secretaries of HHS shall report annually to Congress on the funds expended under this section. Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Amendments to the Jenkins Act: Amends current law to curb online sales of e-cigarettes to minors by bringing such sales under the federal regulations applying to the sale of tobacco products by extending the current definition of a "cigarette" to include any "electronic nicotine delivery system," such as an e-cigarette. It also includes a rule of construction to ensure that the changes made do not interfere with the regulations implemented by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning tobacco products. Non-mailability of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS): Requires the U.S. Postal Service, not later than 120 days after the date of enactment, to promulgate regulations to clarify that the prohibition on mailing cigarettes includes ENDS. Health Care Transparency Increasing transparency by removing gag clauses on price and quality information: Bans gag clauses in contracts between providers and health plans that prevent enrollees, plan sponsors, or referring providers from seeing cost and quality data on providers. It also bans gag clauses in contracts between providers and health insurance plans that prevent plan sponsors from accessing de-identified claims data that could be shared, under Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act business associate agreements, with third parties for plan administration and quality improvement purposes. Disclosure of direct and indirect compensation for brokers and consultants to employer-sponsored health plans and enrollees in plans on the individual market: Requires health benefit brokers and consultants to disclose to plan sponsors any direct or indirect compensation the brokers and consultants may receive for referral of services. The section requires health benefit brokers to disclose to enrollees in the individual market or enrollees purchasing short-term limited-duration insurance any direct or indirect compensation the brokers may receive for referral of coverage. It also establishes a disclosure requirement for compensation that is not known at the time a contract is signed. Strengthening parity in mental health and substance use disorder benefits: Requires group health plans and health insurance issuers offering coverage in the individual or group markets to conduct comparative analyses of the nonquantitative treatment limitations used for medical and surgical benefits as compared to mental health and substance use disorder benefits. It requires secretaries of the HHS, DOL and Treasury to request comparative analyses of at least 20 health insurance plans per year that involve potential violations of mental health parity, complaints regarding noncompliance with mental health parity, and any other instances in which the secretaries determine appropriate. If, after review of the analysis, secretaries of the HHS, DOL and Treasury find that a plan or coverage offered by an issuer is out of compliance with mental health parity law, the secretary must specify corrective actions for the plan or coverage to come into compliance. The secretaries will have 45 days to implement corrective action. If the plan is still not in compliance after those 45 days, the plan shall notify all individuals enrolled in noncompliance plans within seven days. Finally, Section 203 requires secretaries of the HHS, DOL and Treasury to publish an annual report with a summary of the comparative analyses. Reporting on pharmacy benefits and drug cost: Requires health plans to report information on plan medical costs and prescription drug spending to secretaries of the HHS, DOL and Treasury. It also states that the assistant secretary of planning and evaluation, in coordination with the Office of the Inspector General, shall publish a report on the HHS website on prescription drug pricing trends and the contribution to health insurance premiums 18 months after the date of enactment, and every two years thereafter. Public Health and Extenders Programs Extension for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps, and teaching health centers that operate GME programs: Extends mandatory funding for community health centers, the National Health Service Corps and the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program at current levels for each fiscal year, FY 2021 through FY 2023. Diabetes programs: Extends mandatory funding for the Special Statutory Funding Program for Type I Diabetes and the Special Diabetes Program for Indians at current levels for each fiscal year, FY 2021 through FY2023. Improving awareness of disease prevention: Authorizes a national campaign to increase awareness and knowledge of the safety and effectiveness of vaccines for the prevention and control of diseases, to combat misinformation, and to disseminate scientific and evidence-based vaccine-related information. It also directs the HHS to expand and enhance, and as appropriate, establish and improve programs and activities to collect, monitor and analyze vaccination coverage data (the percentage of people who have had certain vaccines). The section also requires the National Vaccine Advisory Committee to update, as appropriate, the report entitled, "Assessing the State of Vaccine Confidence in the United States: Recommendations from the National Vaccine Advisory Committee." Finally, it authorizes grants for the purpose of planning, implementation, and evaluation of activities to address vaccine-preventable diseases, and for research on improving awareness of scientific and evidence-based vaccine-related information. Guide on evidence-based strategies for public health department obesity prevention programs: Authorizes the HHS to develop and disseminate guides on evidence-based obesity prevention and control strategies for state, territorial and local health departments, and Indian tribes and tribal organizations. Expanding capacity for health outcomes: Authorizes the provision of technical assistance and grants to evaluate, develop and expand the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building models to increase access to specialized health care services in medically underserved areas and for medically underserved populations. Public health data system modernization: Requires the HHS to expand, enhance and improve public health data systems used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It also requires the HHS to award grants to state, local tribal, or territorial public health departments for the following: The modernization of public health data systems to assist public health departments in assessing current data infrastructure capabilities and gaps. Provide improve secure public health data collection, transmission, exchange, maintenance and analysis. Provide enhance the interoperability of public health data systems. Provide support and train related personnel. Provide support for earlier disease and health condition detection. Develop and disseminate related information and improved electronic case reporting. It also requires the secretary of the HHS to develop and submit to Congress a coordinated strategy and accompanying implementation plan that identifies and demonstrates measures used to carry out such activities. It requires the HHS to consult with state, local, tribal and territorial health departments and other appropriate public or private entities regarding the plan and grant program to modernize public health data systems pursuant to this section. Native American suicide prevention: Ensures states consult with Indian tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations and use Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems in developing youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies. Reauthorization of the Young Women's Breast Health Education and Awareness Requires Learning Young Act of 2009: Reauthorizes the young women's breast health awareness and education program at $9 million for each fiscal year, FY 2022 through FY 2026. Reauthorization of school-based health centers: Reauthorizes the School-Based Adolescent Health Center Program for FY 2022 through FY 2026. Rare pediatric disease priority review voucher extension: Allows the FDA to continue to award priority review vouchers for drugs that treat rare pediatric diseases and are designated no later than Sept. 30, 2024 and approved no later than Sept. 30, 2026. Conditions of use for biosimilar biological products: Clarifies that biosimilar applicants can include information in biosimilar submissions to show that the proposed conditions of use for the biosimilar product have been previously approved for the reference product. Orphan drug clarification: Clarifies that the clinical superiority standard applies to all drugs with an orphan drug designation for which an application is approved after the enactment of the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017, regardless of the date of the orphan drug designation. Modernizing the labeling of certain generic drugs: Allows the FDA to identify and select certain covered generic drugs for which labeling updates would provide a public health benefit and require sponsors of such drug applications to update labeling. It also requires the FDA to report on the number of covered drugs and a description of the types of drugs selected for labeling changes, and the rationale for such recommended changes, and to provide recommendations for modifying the program under this section. Biological product patent transparency: Increases transparency of patent information for biological products by requiring patent information to be submitted to the FDA and published in the "Purple Book." It also codifies the publication of the "Purple Book" as a single, searchable list of information about each licensed biological product, including marketing and licensure status, patent information, and relevant exclusivity periods. Extension of the work geographic index floor: Increases payments for the work component of physician fees in areas where labor cost is determined to be lower than the national average through Dec. 31, 2023. Extension of funding for quality measure endorsement, input and selection: Provides $66 million to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for quality measure selection and to contract with a consensus-based entity to carry out duties related to quality measurement and performance improvement through Sept. 30, 2023. It also includes additional reporting requirements, facilitates measure removal, and prioritizes maternal morbidity and mortality measure endorsement. Extension of funding outreach and assistance for low-income programs: Extends funding for low-income Medicare beneficiary outreach, enrollment and education activities provided through the State Health Insurance Assistance Program, Area Agencies on Aging, Aging and Disability Resource Centers, and the National Center for Benefits and Outreach and Enrollment through Sept. 30, 2023. It provides $50 million in funding for each fiscal year, FY 2021 through 2023. Extension of Medicare patient IVIG access demonstration project: Extends the Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment demonstration that is administered in the home through Dec. 31, 2023, allowing up to 2,500 additional Medicare patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases to enroll, and requiring an updated evaluation of the demonstration. Extending the Independence at Home Demonstration medical practice program under the Medicare program: Extends the Independence at Home Demonstration program for three additional years (through Dec. 31, 2023) and expands the size of the demonstration from 15,000 beneficiaries to 20,000 beneficiaries. Improving measurements under the Skilled Nursing Facility Value-Based Purchasing (SNF VBP) Program: Allows the HHS secretary to add up to 10 quality measures—including measures of functional status, patient safety, care coordination, or patient experience—to the SNF VBP for facilities with more than the required minimum number of cases. Providing the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission with access to certain drug payment information, including certain rebate information: Ensures the respective executive directors of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission to have access to certain drug pricing data for purposes of monitoring, analysis, and making program recommendations. Moratorium on payment under the Medicare physician fee schedule of the add-on code for inherently complex evaluation and management visits: Prohibits the HHS secretary from making payments under the Physician Fee Schedule for services described by Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code G2211 (or any successor or substantially similar code) prior to Jan. 1, 2024. Temporary freeze of APM payment incentive thresholds: Freezes the current payment and patient count thresholds for physicians and other eligible clinicians participating in Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) to receive a 5% incentive payment in payment years 2023 and 2024 (performance years 2021 and 2022). It also freezes the Partial Qualifying APM participant payment and patient count thresholds at current levels for payment years 2023 and 2024 (performance years 2021 and 2022). Permitting occupational therapists to conduct initial assessment visit and complete a comprehensive assessment with respect to certain rehabilitation services for home health agencies: Requires the secretary of HHS, no later than Jan. 1, 2022, to allow occupational therapists to conduct initial assessment visits and complete comprehensive assessments for certain home health services if the referral order by the physician does not include skilled nursing care but includes occupational therapy and physical therapy or speech language pathology. CMS provider outreach and reporting on cognitive assessment and care plan services: Requires the secretary of HHS to conduct outreach to Medicare physicians and practitioners regarding Medicare payment for cognitive assessment and care plan services furnished to individuals with cognitive impairment, such as Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Continued coverage of certain temporary transitional home infusion therapy services: Ensures continued coverage of home infusion therapy services for beneficiaries taking self-administered and biological drugs that are currently included under the temporary transitional home infusion therapy benefit when the permanent home infusion therapy benefit takes effect Jan. 1, 2021. Transitional coverage and retroactive Medicare Part D coverage for certain low-income beneficiaries: Starting Jan. 1, 2024, permanently authorizes the Limited Income Newly Eligible Transition demonstration to provide immediate temporary Part D coverage for certain individuals with low-income subsidies while their eligibility is processed and increasing the use of real-time benefit tools to lower beneficiary costs. Requires Part D plan sponsors to implement real-time benefit tools that can integrate with provider electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) and electronic health record systems. Beneficiary enrollment simplification: Eliminates coverage gaps in Medicare by requiring that Part B insurance coverage begin the first of the month following an individual's enrollment and provides for a Part A and Part B Special Enrollment Period for "exceptional circumstances" to mirror authority in Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D. Waiving budget neutrality for oxygen: Specifies that the budget neutrality requirement for establishing new payment classes of oxygen and oxygen equipment no longer applies, thereby increasing payment for certain oxygen equipment. Waiving Medicare coinsurance for certain colorectal cancer screening tests: Gradually eliminates cost-sharing for Medicare beneficiaries with respect to colorectal cancer screening tests where a polyp is detected and removed for any services provided by or after Jan. 1, 2022. Expanding access to mental health services furnished through telehealth: Expands access to telehealth services in Medicare to allow beneficiaries to receive mental health services via telehealth, including from the beneficiary's home. To be eligible to receive telehealth services, the beneficiary must have been seen in person at least once by the physician or non-physician practitioner during the six-month period prior to the first telehealth service, with additional face-to-face requirements determined by the HHS secretary. Public-private partnership for health care waste, fraud and abuse detection: Codifies an existing mechanism used within the CMS as part of the agency's ongoing responsibility to combat fraud, waste and abuse. Medicare Payment for Rural Emergency Hospital Services: Creates a new voluntary Medicare payment designation that allows either a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) or a small rural hospital with less than 50 beds to convert to a Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) to preserve beneficiary access to emergency medical care in rural areas that can no longer support a fully operational inpatient hospital. The REHs can also furnish additional medical services needed in their community, such as observation care, outpatient hospital services, telehealth services, ambulance services, and skilled nursing facility services. The REHs will be reimbursed under all applicable Medicare prospective payment systems, plus an additional monthly facility payment and an add-on payment for hospital outpatient services. Distribution of additional residency position: Supports physician workforce development by providing for the distribution of additional Medicare-funded GME residency positions. Rural hospitals, hospitals that are already above their Medicare cap for residency positions, hospitals in states with new medical schools, and hospitals that serve Health Professional Shortage Areas will be eligible for these new positions. Promoting rural hospital GME funding opportunity: Makes changes to Medicare GME Rural Training Tracks (RTT) to provide greater flexibility for rural and urban hospitals that participate in RTT programs. Five-year extension of the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration: Extends the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration by five years. The demonstration tests the feasibility and advisability of establishing "rural community hospitals" to furnish covered inpatient hospital services to Medicare beneficiaries in states with low population densities. Participating hospitals are mostly paid using reasonable cost-based methodology instead of the inpatient prospective payment system. Extension of the Frontier Community Health Integration Project demonstration: Extends the Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) demonstration by five years. The FCHIP demonstration tests new models of health care delivery for rural CAHs. Improving Rural Health Clinic payments: Implements a comprehensive Rural Health Clinic (RHC) payment reform plan. It phases in a steady increase in the RHC statutory cap over an eight-year period, subjects all new RHCs to a uniform per-visit cap and controls the annual rate of growth for uncapped RHCs whose payments are above the upper limit. It ensures that no RHC would see a reduction in reimbursement. The RHCs with an all-inclusive rate above the upper limit will continue to experience annual growth, but the payment amount will be constrained to the facility's prior year reimbursement rate plus the Medicare Economic Index (MEI). Specifically, the policy raises the statutory RHC cap to $100 starting on April 1, 2021, and gradually increases the upper limit each year through 2028 until the cap reaches $190. This brings the RHC upper limit roughly in line with the Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) Medicare base rate. In each subsequent calendar year, starting in 2029, the new statutorily set RHC cap reverts back to an annual MEI inflationary adjustment. Medicare GME treatment of hospitals establishing new medical residency training programs after hosting medical resident rotators for short durations: Allows hospitals to host a limited number of residents for short-term rotations without being negatively affected by a set permanent full-time equivalent resident cap or a per resident amount. Medicare payment for certain Federally Qualified Health Center and Rural Health Clinic services furnished to hospice patients: Allows RHCs and FQHCs to furnish and bill for hospice attending physician services when the RHC and FQHC patients become terminally ill and elect the hospice benefit, beginning Jan. 1, 2022. Delay to the implementation of the radiation oncology model under the Medicare program: Provides for a statutory six-month additional delay, in addition to the delay announced by the CMS of the Medicare radiation oncology model to Jan. 1, 2022. Improving access to skilled nursing facility services for hemophilia patients: Adds blood clotting factors and items and services related to their furnishing to the categories of high-cost, low probability services that are excluded from the SNF per-diem prospective payment system and are separately payable. This change will allow SNF care to be an option instead of continued inpatient care for this limited population. Eliminating DSH reductions for FY 2021: Amends the current schedule of Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payment reductions to eliminate the reductions in effect for FY 2021. Eliminates the reductions for FY 2022 and FY2023 and add reductions to FY 2026 and FY 2027. Supplemental payment reporting requirements: Establishes a system for supplemental payment reporting to the CMS by states, including data on the amount of supplemental payments made to each eligible provider, to better understand how state Medicaid programs use such payments. It requires supplemental payment reports be made publicly available. Medicaid shortfall and third-party payments: Includes a definition of Medicaid shortfall for purposes of third-party payments, which does not currently exist in Medicaid statute. Extension of Money Follows the Person rebalancing demonstration: Extends funding for the Medicaid Money Follows the Person rebalancing demonstration program at $450 million per fiscal year through FY 2023. It also makes a number of changes to the program. It changes the institutional residency period from 90 days to 60 days, updates state application requirements to provide additional information on use of rebalancing funds and requires the HHS secretary to issue a report on best practices, among other improvements. Extension of spousal impoverishment protections: Extends the protections against spousal impoverishment for partners of Medicaid beneficiaries who receive home and community-based services through FY 2023. Extension of community mental health services demonstration program: Extends the community mental health services demonstration program through FY 2023. Clarifying authority of state Medicaid fraud and abuse control units: Allows state Medicaid fraud control units to investigate complaints of patient abuse or neglect in non-institutional or other settings. Medicaid coverage for citizens of freely associated states (FAS): Restores Medicaid eligibility for citizens of the FAS (the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau) lawfully residing in the United States under the Compacts of Free Association. Medicaid coverage of certain medical transportation: Ensures that state Medicaid programs cover non-emergency medical transportation to necessary services. The section also requires states to comply with certain program integrity standards. It also requires the CMS to convene stakeholder meetings to address certain challenges regarding Medicaid program integrity and coverage of such services. Promoting access to life-saving therapies for Medicaid enrollees by ensuring coverage of routine patient costs for items and services furnished in connection with participation in qualifying clinical trials: Requires state Medicaid programs to cover routine patient costs for items and services that are provided in connection with a qualifying clinical trial regarding serious or other life-threatening conditions starting Jan. 1, 2022. Supporting Physicians and Other Professionals In Adjusting to Medicare Payment Changes During 2021: Provides for a one-time, one-year increase in the Medicare physician fee schedule of 3.75% to support physicians and other professionals in adjusting to changes in the Medicare physician fee schedule during 2021, and to provide relief during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Extension of Temporary Suspension of Medicare Sequestration: Provides for a three-month delay of the Medicare sequester payment reductions through March 31, 2021. Extension of TANF, Child Care Entitlement to States and related programs: Extends current funding and policy for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Child Care Entitlement to States, and other related programs, including the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grants through the end of FY 2021. Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP): Extends the program through FY 2023. Title V State Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE): Extends the program through FY 2023. Extension of support for current health professions opportunity grants: Provides $3.6 million to cover the cost of ongoing technical assistance and other HHS administrative costs related to currently operating Health Profession Opportunity Grants through the end of FY 2021, and for costs related to evaluation and reporting through the end of FY 2022. Extension of MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program and state court support: Extends current funding, authorization and reservations within the MaryLee Allen Promoting Safe and Stable Families program, including the Court Improvement Program (CIP), through the end of FY 2022, and make changes to and clarifies the CIP that take effect Oct. 1, 2021. Provisions Relating to Child Care Centers: Authorizes the Library of Congress, Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Senate to reimburse the Little Scholars Child Development Center, Tiny Findings Child Development Center and Senate Employee Child Care Center, respectively, for monthly expenses due to measures taken to combat COVID-19. Analogous authority for the House has already been enacted. Health Offsets Requiring certain manufacturers to report drug pricing information with respect to drugs under the Medicare program: Requires all manufacturers of drugs covered under Medicare Part B to report average sales price (ASP) information to the secretary of HHS beginning on Jan. 1, 2022. Specifically, it adds a new requirement for manufacturers that do not have a rebate agreement through the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program to report ASP information. Extended months of coverage of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant patients and other renal dialysis provisions: Establishes eligibility for immunosuppressive drug coverage through Medicare to post-kidney transplant individuals whose entitlement to benefits under Part A ends (whether before, on, or after Jan. 1, 2023) and who do not receive coverage of immunosuppressive drugs through other insurance. Permitting direct payment to physician assistants under Medicare: Allows direct payment under the Medicare program to physician assistants for services furnished to beneficiaries on or after Jan. 1, 2022. Adjusting calculation of hospice cap amount under Medicare: Extends the change to the annual updates to the hospice aggregate cap made in the "Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014" and applies the hospice payment update percentage rather than the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI–U) to the hospice aggregate cap for FY 2026 through FY 2030. Special rule for determination of ASP in cases of certain self-administered versions of drugs: Authorizes the CMS, when determining payment for products covered under Medicare Part B, to review and exclude payments made for the self-administered versions of products that are not covered under Part B. Establishing hospice program survey and enforcement procedures under the Medicare program: Makes changes to the Medicare hospice survey and certification process to improve consistency and oversight, allowing the HHS secretary to use intermediate remedies to enforce compliance with hospice requirements and extending the requirement that hospices be surveyed no less frequently than once every 36 months. It also creates a new Special Focus Facility Program for poor-performing hospice providers, who will be surveyed not less frequently than once every six months. It increases the penalty for hospices not reporting quality data to the HHS secretary from two to four percentage points, beginning in FY 2024. Nutrition Provisions Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Increases the monthly SNAP benefit level by 15% based on the June 2020 Thrifty Food Plan through June 30, 2021. Simplifies the state administrative process for SNAP benefit level increases and provides $100 million for state administrative costs through FY 2021 and requires these funds to be made available to states within 60 days of enactment. Excludes federal pandemic unemployment compensation from being counted toward household income for SNAP and extends SNAP eligibility to college students who are eligible for a federal or state work-study program or has an expected family contribution of zero. Directs the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to submit a report on the redemption rate and account balances for each month from January 2021 to June 2021. Shortens the statutory waivers for certain SNAP quality control requirements from Sept. 30, 2021, to June 30, 2021. Additional Assistance for SNAP online purchasing and technology improvements: Provides $5 million for technical support to the USDA in expanding the SNAP online purchasing program, including for farmers markets and direct marketing farmers, and for supporting mobile payment technologies and the electronic benefit transfer system. Nutrition Assistance Programs: Provides $614 million to Puerto Rico and American Samoa for nutrition assistance, of which $14 million shall be available to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Emergency Food Assistance Program: Invests $400 million in the Emergency Food Assistance Program through Sept. 30, 2021. Allows up to 20% of these funds to be used for commodity distribution. Commodity Supplemental Food Program: Provides $13 million to the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, 20% of which may be used for administrative costs through Sept. 30, 2021. Emergency costs for child nutrition programs during COVID-19 pandemic: Provides emergency relief to help school meal and child and adult care food programs, which are in dire need of financial assistance, to continue serving children and families. Provides as much funding as necessary to carry out these payments. Task force on supplemental food delivery in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): Requires the USDA to establish a task force on food delivery models in the WIC program so that participants have access to curbside pickup and other safe food purchasing methods during the pandemic. Nutrition services under "Older Americans Act": Provides needed flexibility to area agencies on aging and state units on aging to ensure that older adults' nutritional needs can continue to be met safely during the pandemic. Assistance for children in child care: Ensures that millions of young children can access needed nutrition benefits by clarifying that states may issue Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) benefits to children under the age of 6 who live in households receiving SNAP benefits and residing in an area in which schools or child care facilities are closed or operating with reduced hours or attendance without the need to verify childcare enrollment at the individual household level. Additionally, makes P-EBT implementation easier for states and clarifies simplifying assumptions that may be used. Aging and disability services program: Provides $175 million in emergency funding for Older Americans Act nutrition programs, including $7 million for tribal nutrition programs. Additional Provisions Related to HHS Federal Communications Commission (FCC) COVID-19 Telehealth Program: Appropriates an additional $250 million to the FCC for its COVID-19 Telehealth Program authorized under the CARES Act. It also puts in place new transparency obligations for the program surrounding the FCC's review of applications, and directs the FCC to ensure, to the extent feasible, that all states benefit from the program. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 | Health and Human Services Appropriations Provisions Summary General Appropriations and COVID Stimulus Funding Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): The bill includes a total of $97 billion for the HHS, an increase of $2.1 billion above the fiscal year (YR) 2020 enacted level and $9.9 billion above the president's budget request. Within the HHS, the following funding was appropriated: COVID Stimulus Funding Department of Health and Human Services: $73 billion to support: Research, development, manufacturing, procurement, and distribution of vaccines and therapeutics Diagnostic testing and contact tracing. Mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services. Childcare support. The bill provides a total of $42.9 billion for the NIH, an increase of $1.25 billion above the FY 2020 enacted level. This includes: $3.118 billion, an increase of $300 million, for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias research. $560 million, an increase of $60 million, for the BRAIN Initiative. $541 million, an increase of $8 million, for research related to opioids through the HEAL Initiative. $220 million, an increase of $20 million, for Universal Flu Vaccine Research. $3.09 billion, an increase of $20 million, for HIV/AIDS research, including funding for the Centers for AIDS Research as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative. $397 million, an increase of $10 million, for Institutional Development Awards. $80 million, an increase of $5 million, for Research Centers in Minority Institutions. $587 million, an increase of $9 million, for Clinical and Translational Science Awards. $65 million, an increase of $5 million, for the INCLUDE Down syndrome research initiative. $12.5 million for research on firearm violence prevention. $44 million, an increase of $5 million, for the Office of Research on Women's Health. Funding for new initiatives, including $10 million for research on premature births, $10 million for research on tick-borne diseases and $50 million for research on artificial intelligence to address chronic diseases. National Institutes of Health: $1.25 billion to support research and clinical trials related to the long-term effects of COVID-19, as well as continued support for Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics for COVID-19. The bill includes a total of $7.9 billion for the CDC, an increase of $125 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. This includes $856 million in transfers from the Prevention and Public Health Fund. The bill's funding for public health preparedness and modernization includes: $201 million, an increase of $25 million, for influenza planning and response. $695 million, an increase of $20 million, for public health emergency preparedness cooperative agreements with state and local health departments. $65 million, an increase of $2 million, for food safety. $361 million, an increase of $7.5 million, to strengthen epidemiologic and laboratory capacity, and includes $50 million to support the modernization of public health data surveillance and analytics at the CDC, state and local health departments. $56 million, an increase of $5 million, for public health workforce and career development. $175 million, an increase of $1 million, for health statistics. Additional public health funding includes: $175 million, an increase of $35 million, to support CDC's efforts to reduce new HIV infections. $12 million, an increase of $2 million, for suicide prevention. $12.5 million, the same amount as the 2020 enacted level, to specifically support firearm injury and mortality prevention research. $237.5 million, an increase of $7.5 million, to address tobacco and e-cigarettes. $20.5 million, an increase of $5 million, for Alzheimer's. $63 million, an increase of $5 million, for safe motherhood. $345 million, an increase of $2.5 million, for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. $193 million, an increase of $20 million, for global disease detection efforts. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: $8.75 billion to support federal, state, local, territorial and tribal public health agencies to distribute, administer, monitor and track coronavirus vaccination to ensure broad-based distribution, access and vaccine coverage, including: $4.5 billion for state, local, territorial, and tribal public health departments. $300 million for a targeted effort to distribute and administer vaccines to high-risk and underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minority populations and rural communities. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration | Health Resources and Services Administration Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): The bill funds the SAMHSA at $6 billion, an increase of $133 million above the 2020 enacted level. Funding for SAMHSA programs include: Mental health resources, including a new $35 million crisis care initiative within the Mental Health Block Grant, and expanded services and support for mental for children and youth, including $107 million for Project AWARE, an increase of $5 million and $72 million for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, an increase of $3 million. Suicide prevention, including $21 million for the Zero Suicide program, an increase of $5 million, and $24 million for the Suicide Lifeline, an increase of $5 million. Substance abuse treatment: $3.8 billion, an increase of $17 million, including continued funding for opioid prevention and treatment. Substance abuse prevention: $208 million, an increase of $2 million. $1.65 billion for the Substance Abuse and Prevention Treatment Block Grant. $1.65 billion for the Mental Health Services Block Grant. $600 million for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. $50 million for suicide prevention programs. $50 million for Project AWARE to support school-based mental health for children. $240 million for emergency grants to states. $10 million for the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Not less than $125 million of funds provided to the SAMHSA must be allocated to tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian health organizations, or health service providers to tribes across a variety of programs. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): The bill includes $7.5 billion for the HRSA, which is $151 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. The amount includes: $1.7 billion for the health centers program, an increase of $57 million. $2.4 billion, an increase of $3 5 million, for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program. $102 million in health centers and $105 million in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program to reduce new HIV infections by 90% in 10 years. $1.2 billion, an increase of $30 million, for the HRSA's Bureau of Health Professions programs to support the medical workforce. $975 million, an increase of $32 million, for programs to improve maternal and child health. $286 million for the Title X Family Planning program. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): The bill provides $338 million for the AHRQ, the same as the FY 2020 enacted level. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): The bill provides $4 billion for the CMS administrative expenses, the same as the FY 2020 enacted level. Administration for Children and Families | Administration for Community Living Administration for Children and Families (ACF): The bill provides $24.7 billion in discretionary funding for the ACF, an increase of $251 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. Early childhood programs receive an increase of $220 million: $5.9 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant, an increase of $85 million. $10.7 billion for Head Start, an increase of $135 million. $3.8 billion for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, an increase of $10 million. $745 million for the Community Services Block Grant, an increase of $5 million. $196 million for Family Violence Prevention and Services and the Domestic Violence Hotline, an increase of $8.5 million. Administration for Children and Families: $10.25 billion to support early childhood programs and childcare providers through: $10 billion for Child Care and Development Block Grants to provide immediate assistance to childcare providers. $250 million for Head Start. Administration for Community Living (ACL): The bill funds the ACL at $2.3 billion, which is $35 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. This amount includes: $952 million for Senior Nutrition programs, an increase of $15 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. $200 million for Family Caregivers Services, an increase of $4 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. Office of the Secretary, General Departmental Management | Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund Office of the Secretary, General Departmental Management: The bill provides $551 million, an increase of $6 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. The amount includes: $108 million for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program. $62 million for the Office of Minority Health, an increase of $3 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. $55 million for the Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative, an increase of $1.5 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. $35 million for the Office on Women's Health, an increase of $1.5 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. $5 million for KidneyX for the second year of a public-private partnership to accelerate the development and adoption of novel therapies and technologies to improve the diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases. Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (PHSSEF): The bill provides $2.8 billion for the PHSSEF, an increase of $110 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. The total funding level includes: $597 million for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), an increase of $35 million. $770 million for Project BioShield, an increase of $35 million. $705 million for the Strategic National Stockpile, the same as the FY 2020 enacted level and the president's budget request. $287 million for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness, an increase of $27 million. Food and Nutrition Programs | Food and Drug Administration Food and Nutrition Programs: The legislation contains discretionary funding, as well as mandatory funding required by law, for food and nutrition programs within U.S. Department of Agriculture. This includes funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and child nutrition programs. $6 billion for the WIC discretionary funding, which fully funds participation this year, and it includes: $90 million for the breastfeeding counselor program. $114 billion mandatory spending for SNAP. This fully funds participation as well as the SNAP enhanced allotments authorized by the Families First Act. $25.1 billion in child nutrition programs including: Free or reduced-price school lunches and snacks for children who qualify for the program. Approximately $552 million for the Summer Food Service Program to ensure low-income children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session. $42 million for the summer EBT program. $30 million for school kitchen equipment grants. $21 million for the WIC farmers market nutrition program. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): The FDA receives a total of $3.2 billion in discretionary funding in the bill, $43 million above the FY 2020 enacted level. Total funding for the FDA, including user fees, is $5.97 billion. This total includes targeted increases for medical product and food safety activities, including new initiatives to advance new influenza vaccine manufacturing technologies and leverage emerging technologies to monitor food and medical product safety. Funding is also included to support the development of a framework for regulating cannabidiol products. The bill also appropriates $70 million to accelerate medical product development as authorized in the 21st Century Cures Act. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response: $22.945 billion to respond to coronavirus, including: $19.695 billion for the BARDA for manufacturing and procurement of vaccines and therapeutics, as well as ancillary supplies necessary for the administration of vaccines and therapeutics. $3.25 billion for the Strategic National Stockpile. Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund | Administration for Community Living Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund: $25.4 billion to support testing and contact tracing to effectively monitor and suppress COVID-19, as well as to reimburse for health care-related expenses or lost revenue attributable to the coronavirus, including: $22.4 billion for testing, contact tracing, and other activities necessary to effectively monitor and suppress COVID-19, including $2.5 billion for a targeted effort to improve testing capabilities and contact tracing in high-risk and underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minority populations and rural communities. $3 billion in additional grants for hospital and health care providers to be reimbursed for health care-related expenses or lost revenue directly attributable to the public health emergency resulting from coronavirus, along with direction to allocate not less than 85% of unobligated funds in the Provider Relief Fund through an application-based portal to reimburse health care providers for financial losses incurred in 2020. Administration for Community Living: $100 million to address abuse, neglect and exploitation of the elderly, including adult protective service and long-term care ombudsman activities. NCSL's COVID-19 Economic Relief Bill Summary NCSL's Omnibus Appropriations Bill Summary House Democrats' Division-by-Division Summary of Appropriations Provisions House Democrats' Division-by-Division Summary of COVID-19 Relief House Democrats' Division-by-Division Summary of Authorizing Matters Senate Republicans Summary of Omnibus and COVID-19 Package

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Digital Future Daily How the next wave of technology is upending the global economy and its power structures Lawmakers wonder: 'How did we let Facebook get this big?' By EMILY BIRNBAUM With help from Alexandra S. Levine, John Hendel, Leah Nylen and Benjamin Din Editor's Note: Morning Tech is a free version of POLITICO Pro Technology's morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day's biggest stories.Act on the news with POLITICO Pro. — Time to reflect: Some lawmakers are frustrated that the tech company has grown big enough to have implemented its own judicial system — but Congress only has itself to blame. — Privacy, please: Privacy talks are restarting, for real this time. House lawmakers are prepping for roundtable discussions, aiming for a national privacy law in the books by 2022. — Not quite equitable: A hearing on broadband equity today could reveal how far apart the parties really are when it comes to investing millions of dollars in digital infrastructure. IT'S THURSDAY; MORNING TECH IS HERE FOR YOU. I'm your host, Emily Birnbaum — but not for long! I'm super excited to announce that my new colleague, Benjamin Din, will be the primary host of Morning Tech starting next Tuesday. Ben is joining the tech team after covering breaking news for the last few months. Aside from MT, he'll be taking a closer look at policy and politics around emerging tech — everything from quantum computing to the expanding frontiers of artificial intelligence to the U.S.' efforts to out-innovate foreign adversaries. He's new to the beat, so feel free to reach out and say hello! You can reach him at [email protected] and @benjamindin on Twitter. As for me, I'll be tackling the tech lobbying and influence beat full-time, looking into how tech companies and their major rivals are trying to get their way in Washington. I'll focus on where companies put their money, the revolving door and the people calling the shots. Reach out with any thoughts on what (and who) you think I should focus on first! Until then… Got a news tip? Got some thoughts on how Ben can make MT even better? Email [email protected] and [email protected] Got an event for our calendar? Send details to [email protected]. Anything else? Team info below. And don't forget: Add @MorningTech and @PoliticoPro on Twitter. Tech of the Town — INTROSPECTION AFTER FACEBOOK BOARD'S TRUMP DECISION: No matter how they feel about the Facebook oversight board's decision to keep former President Donald Trump's account suspended, many lawmakers have responded to the ruling with one basic question: Why is Facebook big enough to have its own so-called "Supreme Court," anyways? Republicans and Democrats are both mad about Wednesday's ruling, of course. But beyond the decision itself, the entire episode has left them aghast over their own failure to regulate the tech behemoth, which has enabled Facebook to essentially become a government in its own right. (Cristiano has some behind-the-scenes details about the tough calls its board had to make.) "We in the Congress have, frankly, not done our job," said Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia. "This is Orwellian," said Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, adding that it "only underscores the need for Congress to step up our work to bring much-needed reform and oversight to Big Tech." — Don't get ahead of yourself: Members on both sides of the aisle derided the Facebook oversight board as a distraction from Facebook's unchecked power and unacceptably opaque in its deliberations. But that doesn't mean they agree on what to do about it. Aides told MT on Wednesday that they're skeptical Congress could come to any consensus about the proper legislative response, leaving Facebook to lean on its private board of highly paid experts for the foreseeable future. — Facebook says it's trying: Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs, said the company is aiming for transparency. "I hear sometimes, 'That's outrageous because the government should do that.' Well, fine, but governments haven't done that, and in the meantime, we have to take decisions in real time." And Facebook's rivals are celebrating their own approaches in the wake of the new scrutiny, Alex reports for Pros. PRIVACY PROGRESS? PERHAPS — The crickets we've been hearing around privacy legislation in Congress could soon be going away (and not because of the cicadas). House lawmakers are planning to convene a series of bipartisan roundtable discussions in the coming weeks focused on advancing a national privacy law, Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), chair of the Energy and Commerce consumer protection subcommittee, said during a briefing Wednesday. The talks between E&C staffers and industry and consumer voices from across the tech world will "really dig in on some of the major pieces of privacy legislation" and issues including preemption of state laws, reducing the amount of data that companies collect and civil rights, Schakowsky said. — Feelin' '22: Industry and consumer groups during Wednesday's event set the end of 2022 as the deadline for Congress to get a privacy bill across the finish line — and lawmakers like Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), chair of the Commerce consumer protection subcommittee, appeared confident they're up to the task. Blumenthal said he hopes to hold "at least one or more hearings" on the topic. — The sticking points are still sticky: Both Blumenthal and Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), the top Republican on E&C's consumer protection panel, said state-level privacy actions —including in Bilirakis' own backyard — are making a federal standard even more necessary. But that doesn't mean the minutiae that brought privacy progress to a screeching halt last Congress have disappeared. TODAY: ANOTHER CHANCE TO READ THE BROADBAND TEA LEAVES — The topic of today's House Energy and Commerce telecom subcommittee hearing is "broadband equity." And while lawmakers generally agree the buildout of internet infrastructure to rural areas should be subsidized, they're less aligned about whether to secure dedicated pots of money for addressing disparities, particularly along racial lines, in access and affordability. — Democrats have trumpeted concerns about internet affordability while rallying around President Joe Biden's $100-billion broadband plan, while Senate Republicans have made a $65 billion broadband infrastructure counteroffer that doesn't directly address racial equity. The haggling is still ongoing, with a bipartisan White House meeting slated for next week featuring Senate Broadband Caucus co-chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.). Today's House session may help show just how far apart the parties may be — or whether Democrats will be inclined to advance infrastructure legislation under budget reconciliation without GOP buy-in. McMorris Rodgers will argue Trump-era approaches are already increasing broadband adoption: "Thanks to competitive pressures, innovation and a light-touch regulatory environment, broadband prices have seen a significant decline over the past decade," she'll say, according to prepared remarks. — Vice President Kamala Harris is assuming a lead role on broadband expansion, as John recently reported, and is calling lawmakers this week. One Harris curiosity: In her presidential bid, Harris not only advocated for a massive boost of spending to build out broadband and advanced ideas about ensuring affordability but pledged a $2 billion annual subsidy "to ensure that high-speed connectivity remains available in rural areas," according to her campaign website. That approach would line up with recent lobbying from telecom companies like AT&T to make FCC subsidies come directly from congressional appropriations. While Harris is likely to hew to White House plans, her previous openness to annual expenditures could hearten those angling for a fix to the FCC subsidy model. OUT WITH THE OLD — The Labor Department is scrapping the Trump administration's business-friendly independent contractor rule, POLITICO's Rebecca Rainey reports. This isn't a surprise, but it is the latest signal that DOL is gearing up to take a tougher enforcement approach to worker classification, which could have major implications for the gig economy. APPLE-EPIC UPDATE THE OG TECH MONOPOLY TAKES ON APPLE — Apple really, really doesn't want streaming game services on the iPhone. On Day 3 of Fortnite-maker Epic Games' antitrust suit against Apple, Microsoft's Lori Wright spent hours detailing the company's unsuccessful effort to bring the Xbox Cloud game streaming service to Apple's iOS. Microsoft spent months trying to persuade Apple to let xCloud into the App Store, even sending Wright and other execs to Apple's Cupertino headquarters to talk. "We tried very hard to get [xCloud] onto iOS but were not able," she said. — Game streaming is a way to play even technologically demanding video games online, thus saving players from buying pricey hardware. Along with Microsoft, Nvidia, Google and Amazon have each launched equivalent services, but Apple hasn't let any of them into the App Store. — The Netflix model: Apple initially told Microsoft to use the same model as Netflix and Amazon's Audible, where users log in to access a catalog of available titles. But Apple later changed its mind, Wright said, and told Microsoft to make every game on xCloud available for individual download. That would be a nightmare for users, she said, and Apple's rule "fundamentally breaks down the service we were trying to deliver." Apple never explained "why there was a special carve-out for all other types of media and entertainment other than gaming. — Once Microsoft realized it couldn't get onto the App Store, the company reprogrammed the service to work through Apple's Safari browser on iPhones and iPads, Wright said. "It was our only outcome in order to reach mobile users on iOS," she said. Apple lawyer Jay Srinivasan pushed back on her gloomy testimony, reading aloud xCloud press reviews that called it a "super solid experience" on iOS. Wright also begrudgingly acknowledged that Microsoft recently expanded testing of the xCloud service on Safari. Acting FTC chair Rebecca Kelly Slaughter has selected Austin King to be associate general counsel for the agency's new rulemaking group, while former Free Press policy counsel Gaurav Laroia will replace King as attorney-adviser for consumer protection. … The Technology Coalition, a partnership to coordinate efforts to combat online sexual exploitation and abuse, has added Discord, MEGA, Pinterest and TikTok as members. … Gerry Oberst, former general counsel for 5G Everywhere in America, is rejoining Hogan Lovells as a senior counsel in the communication, internet and ,edia practice. … Linda Bloss-Baum will be SoundExchange's vice president of government relations and public affairs. Silicon Valley Must-Reads 2024 watch: Trump's team expected he'd be back on Facebook, but the board's decision now "makes it infinitely harder" for him to find donors and raise money, POLITICO's Meridith McGraw reports. Deep dive: The inside story of how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos went up against the National Enquirer — and won. More from Bloomberg. The hidden hand: Clegg is the force behind the company's latest approach to Trump, The New York Times reports. DOWNLOAD THE POLITICO MOBILE APP: Stay up to speed with the newly updated POLITICO mobile app, featuring timely political news, insights and analysis from the best journalists in the business. The sleek and navigable design offers a convenient way to access POLITICO's scoops and groundbreaking reporting. Don't miss out on the app you can rely on for the news you need, reimagined. DOWNLOAD FOR iOS– DOWNLOAD FOR ANDROID. More in AI: The White House launched a new website in order to make AI research more accessible, according to Axios. Seeking clarification: After the Facebook oversight board's decision, Public Citizen sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking if the platform's algorithms amplified partisan unrest during Trump's presidency. 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See what's happening on the field. The first real-time incident command platform for first responders that can be used in 5 minutes. Keeping track of your team members is a key to make the right decisions and keep them secure. With SaveSarah your team members can simply broadcast their locations using any Android or iOS device. You can follow your team live, see what they have found in real-time and give them the instructions they need. Keep track of important points on your mission map wherever you are. Share meeting points, point last seen, operation base and any other location you want to share with your team. Team members can submit images, found clues or hazards that you can see in real-time. Works on Anroid, iOS and all desktop computers. Offline acces in the works.. See what happened, where it happened and when. Simply press play and your mission unfolds in front of you as it happened. Mission replay is the perfect tool to analyze missions or close any disputes instantly. See from a birds-eye view in seconds. SaveSarah let's you share drone images even while the drone is in the air. Built-in standard operational procedures for using drones so that you can concentrate on your missions. With SaveSarah it is now possible to work with more pilots at the same time. The pilots can fly at the same time, maps can be processed at the same time and all the maps are represented under one operation. This makes it much faster and easier to see all information in a central hub. Deployed 50+ times and counting.. Searching and succesfully locating a missing elderly person in Kocs, Hungary by Tb4x4 SAR. Successfully locating a kidnapped girl, Emmelyn using drones by DroneSAR Chile. SaveSarah helped firefighters and voluntary drone pilots to transfer images thousands of kilometers away.

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The Sixth Form Centre buzzed with activity on when we welcomed a huge number of Year 11 pupils, parents and prospective pupils to the Sixth Form Subject Forum. It was a busy evening for staff and current Sixth Form pupils as they answered a range of questions about subjects, A Levels and IB choices. It was fantastic to see such interest and enthusiasm for Sixth Form study at PGS.

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Rastko Nemanjić the third son of Zupan (Tribal Leader) Stefan Nemanjić and his wife Ana. Rastko was tonsured a monk in 1192 and was given the name of Sava at the monastery of St. Panteleimon on Mount Athos. Soon after he went to the monastery of Vatopedi. In 1217 Stefan (Sava's elder brother) became the "First-Crowned" Serbian King and in 1219, at the court of the Byzantine Emperor in Nicaea, Sava was consecrated as archbishop by the Ecumenical Patriarch, becoming the first Serbian Archbishop. At this time the Serbian Orthodox Church also became autocephalous (self governing). In 1228 Archbishop Sava performed a miracle by resurrecting his dead brother Stefan who later became monk Simon. Today St Simon's relics are at the Monastery of Studenica. Sava as archbishop performed the coronation of Radoslav 1228 and Vladislav 1234 both son's of Stefan the First-Crowned. After several attempts with the Bulgarians, King Vladislav finally transferred St. Sava's relics to the Monastery of Mileseva in about 1237. O Equal-to-the-Apostles and Saints, pray to Christ our God to grant us His great mercy. Let us sing His hymn thrice!

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Are you the type of person who can bend every part of your body while dancing, the type who likes to do a little bit of hip movement while jamming to a tune, or the type who just bobs your head and raises your fists since your body isn't flexible enough? Well, it doesn't really matter what kind of dancer you are or what moves you know. Dancing is not all about the head spins and monkey flips as long as you are having a good time and enjoying yourself while moving to a beat. Dancing is almost as old as mankind's existence. Paintings from old civilizations have shown a number of images relating to dance movements. The medieval period saw the evolution of dancing where it became more formal and it mostly occurred in events held by noble families. More casual dancing began in the 1960s when nightclubs started to become very popular. Dancing continued to evolve in the 2000s when Electronic Dance Music (EDM) started to invade mainstream music charts. EDM dance festivals are now being held on a regular basis all over the world. Most dance events give out tickets to guests. Tickets are handed out if the venue can only accommodate a number of people. Additionally, tickets are given out for safety purposes so security personnel assigned to the event can better ensure the safety of the guests. Dance event tickets have become an art form themselves. Various themes and concepts can be used and there is no limit on how the tickets can be designed. Even for formal dance events, the designs of these dance tickets can still have a variety of color and detail. Dance tickets can be used for any event as well. Here are some attractive dance ticket templates you can use for your dance party. This birthday party invitation template uses an image of a nightclub disc jockey (DJ) spinning records with images of large speakers in the background. Blue and yellow hues are spread out across the template which creates a balance with the darker colors used in the DJ image. Whenever an image (either vector or a real photo) of a DJ is used for any event, expect a lively and loud affair. The best DJs have the ability to make everyone get up on their feet and dance by combining contemporary hits with heavy and smooth beats. This template won't give you any problems as the designer will be doing all the work once you complete the purchase. All you need to do is input the event details and the let the designer do the work. This template has a 2 1/8″ x 6.5″ measurement which can fit into an 6 ¾" envelope size, and will be immediately shipped to your billing address once the design has been accomplished. Winter and rustic elements are used in this beautiful dance ticket template. Snow flake designs and hanging light bulbs complement the wooden surface background. This template is perfect if you are holding dance events during the holiday season. Since the invitation template uses white as the central color, try to have an all-white theme for the guests. The template lets you customize with colors and wording. The template size is 6.5″ x 2.5″ and compared to the other previous template, this template will be emailed to you once you have made the purchase and informed the designer of the event details. It is much more convenient and it won't take weeks or months before the template gets delivered to your doorstep. This template has a an elegant red design with classic art styles embedded in the background. This template is best used for church banquets, galas, and other fund-raising events. Since the design is more formal, the event should be formal as well, not necessarily the suit and tie type, but guests should wear proper attire and observe strict decorum. This template uses a Microsoft Publisher template and can be edited using Publisher 7 or higher. Once the purchase has been made, then the template will become available for download. This template has a 2.25" x 6.25" size, 2″ x 6″ cut size and also contains six background color files, an area for a number and perforation, and CMYK/300 dpi adjustment. This beautiful dance ticket invitation template which has a vintage 1970s art style uses some very nice colors and designs. The sparkling colors have a kaleidoscopic effect that creates a nostalgic feel. Use this template if you are planning to hold vintage-themed dance parties with music from Marvin Gaye, Bee Gees, and ABBA. Your parents and their friends will surely love it! This 2. 5" x 7.5"sized template can be downloaded instantly once payment is made. Adobe Reader should be used for this self-editable PDF template. Once downloaded, you can type your own text, save it, and print as many versions as you need. This dance ticket template uses graffiti style art and silhouette images of people dancing together with colorful smoke effects. Use this template for freestyle or casual dance events. Since the founding of hip-hop and the evolution of R&B in the late 1980s, dance has also changed to match the shifting genres of music. Hip-hop and R&B introduced more intimate movements and the emphasis on hand and feet motion. From that point on, freestyle was born. Although the template is classified as a handmade item, the designer will only send the JPG files (RGB mode) and PDF file (CMYK mode) once the payment has been made. Celebrate the fabulous 1980s with this party ticket admission invitation template. The font designs and the colorful vector images all resemble themes from the era where the Betamax, neon spandex, pale jeans, and Madonna reigned supreme. This template has the perfect 1980s-inspired design, so get ready to bust out some Michael Jackson, Police, Eurythmics, Lionel Richie, and of course, some Madonna tunes. The colorful bubble designs fill out the background of this template while 1980s-style fonts are used for the event details. The template has a 5″ x 7″ (portrait) or 7″ x 5″ (landscape) size in which you can add photos and text to both sides. You can also add eight additional sizes and six shape styles. Two printing options are available: standard and high definition. Printing in this template is high quality, full-color, and full-bleed on both sides. This glow in the dark sweet 16 party card template has some nice glow designs which also resemble a neon light effect. Blue and green glows are used for the template heading with mini yellow and purple dots also integrated in the back of the glow designs. Adjust the text to make it fit for your own dance party. The black-colored background matches well with the blue and green glows, making the glow effect have more of a embossed effect. This template has a 4″ x 9.25″ (portrait) or 9.25″ x 4″ (landscape) size in which you can add photos and text on both sides. You can choose from 12 unique paper styles and colors, and you can also select from eight more sizes and six shape styles through the "Customize it!" button. Printing (standard and high definition) in this template is high quality, full-color, and full-bleed on both sides. School proms are always eventful occasions for teenagers. Aside from having their first ever dance, most of them have their first ever kiss during prom night. Prom events are also more formal events as they require the students to dress in a suit and tie for the boys and gowns for the girls. This template beautifully uses France's most famous landmark, the Eiffel Tower, and integrates it in the template's background which also resembles a post card from Paris. This template has a 4″ x 9.25″ (portrait) or 9.25″ x 4″ (landscape) size and has 12 unique paper types and colors. You can also add photos and text to both sides and choose from eight additional sizes and six shape styles. Printing (standard and high definition) is high quality, full-color and full-bleed on both sides. "A carriage is waiting for you, milady!" This dance ticket template uses an image of the famous carriage used in one of Disney's most beloved and popular movies, Cinderella. Use this template if you are hosting a formal dance party with notable guests. This can also be used as a wedding reception invitation due to its elegant design. The gold-colored carriage is complemented with a violet gradient background. This template has a 3.5″ x 2.5″ size and has 12 unique paper types and colors. You can also add photos and text to both sides and choose from eight additional sizes and six shape styles. Printing (standard and high definition) is high quality, full-color, and full-bleed on both sides. Any design which has the gold color in it is bound to be attractive. Take, for example, this gold vintage dance ticket template which masterfully incorporates gold colors in the template's background. Vintage fonts are used in this template which complements the gold background well. Similar to the other templates, this template has a 4″ x 9.25″ (portrait) or 9.25″ x 4″ (landscape) size and 12 paper types and colors. You can also add photos and text to both sides and choose from eight additional sizes and six shape styles through the "Customize it" button. The dance event's decorations are not the only ones that need to follow the event's theme. The tickets need to follow the event's theme for uniformity purposes, too, so it prevents confusion on the part of the guests. If the dance event has a 1980s-inspired theme similar to the template above, use 1980s-inspired themes for the tickets. Additionally, the designs used for the decorations can also follow the same pattern for the tickets. Most dance events are casual, and casual events don't need to have a strict color code in their designs. Look for dance ticket designs which have stunning color combinations. Colors make the design more attractive and will make the ticket recipients excited for the event. The same process should be used for formal dance events. If you have noticed, movies, concerts and festivals never advertise using just one design. Numerous designs are used for promotion and it aids in increasing the visibility of the event. Use the same thing for your dance ticket design and have an alternative ticket design on the ready. This also creates excitement and convinces people who are still undecided to attend the event.

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var mysqlLib = require('../mysqlLib'); /* * GET channels listing. */ exports.list = function(req, res){ mysqlLib.getConnection(function(err,connection){ var sql = 'SELECT channel_id, channel_cd, description, ' + 'date_format(created, \'%m/%d/%Y\') created, created_by, if (updated,date_format(updated, \'%m/%d/%Y\'),null) updated,' + 'updated_by FROM channels ' + 'order by greatest(created, updated) desc '; connection.query(sql,function(err,rows) { if(err) console.log("Error Selecting : %s ",err ); res.render('channels/channels',{page_title:"Channels - CommandCenter",data:rows}); }); }); }; exports.addform = function(req, res){ res.render('channels/add_channel',{page_title:"Add Channels - CommandCenter"}); }; /*Edit the Channel*/ exports.editform = function(req, res){ var id = req.params.id; mysqlLib.getConnection(function(err,connection){ var sql = 'SELECT channel_id, channel_cd, length(channel_cd) channel_cd_length, description, ' + ' length(description) description_length, active ' + ' FROM channels where channel_id = ?' connection.query(sql,[id],function(err,rows) { if(err) console.log("Error Selecting : %s ",err ); res.render('channels/edit_channel',{page_title:"Edit Channels - CommandCenter",data:rows}); }); }); }; /*Save the Channel*/ exports.save = function(req,res){ var input = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(req.body)); mysqlLib.getConnection(function (err, connection) { var data = { channel_cd : input.channel_cd, description : input.description, created_by : input.created_by, active : 1 }; var sql = 'INSERT INTO channels set ?'; connection.query(sql,[data], function(err, rows) { if (err) console.log("Error inserting : %s ",err ); res.redirect('/channels'); }); }); }; exports.save_edit = function(req,res){ var input = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(req.body)); var id = req.params.id; mysqlLib.getConnection(function (err, connection) { var data = { channel_cd : input.channel_cd, description : input.description, updated_by : input.updated_by, active : input.active, }; var sql = 'UPDATE channels set ?, updated=CURRENT_TIMESTAMP() WHERE channel_id = ?'; connection.query(sql,[data,id], function(err, rows) { if (err) console.log("Error Updating : %s ",err ); //console.log(query.sql); //get raw query res.redirect('/channels'); }); }); }; exports.delete = function(req,res){ var id = req.params.id; mysqlLib.getConnection(function (err, connection) { var sql = 'DELETE FROM channels WHERE channel_id = ?'; connection.query(sql,[id], function(err, rows) { if(err) console.log("Error deleting : %s ",err ); res.redirect('/channels'); }); }); };

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Loko beats Enisey in the ending for the second time Lokomotiv Kuban defeated Enisey in Krasnodar— 75:71 (18:15, 19:19, 18:21, 20:16). The best scorers Lokomotiv Kuban: Jaylen Barford (14 + 5 assists), Andrey Martiuk (12 + 7 rebounds), Darral Willis (11), Aleksandr Shcherbenev (11), Dmitriy Uzinskiy (10). Enisey: Vladislav Trushkin (19), James Thompson (14), Orlando Coleman (11). Game progress In the first round game, Loko was able to defeat Enisey with Jaylen Barford buzzer beater. But in this game, Lokomotiv was a clear favorite. And the reason for this was not only the home court factor, but also the absence of Angelo Warner. However, the start of the game was controlled by the guests. Aleksandr Gudumak 2 made shots allowed the Siberian team to lead the score – 5:0. But gradually the hosts were able to get the lead. They defended well, ran in fast breaks well and played pick-and-rolls almost perfect. As a result the first quarter remained for Loko with actions in the paint— 18:15. In the second quarter, the game did not change. Both teams performed noticeably better in defense than offense. By the halftime, the opponents made 24 turnovers. At the same time, neither side was able to take the lead. The Siberian team was able to miss a mini-run from Loko at the start of the quarter due to the work of bigmen in the paint. As a result, the hosts finished the first half of the game with the same 3–point lead – 37:34. The key moment The result was decided only at the end. And here, as in the first game, Jaylen Barford acted as a leader. With the minimal lead of his team, Loko guard successfully made 2 shots in a row – 71:65. After Vladislav Trushkin three-pointer 16 seconds before the end, the difference was reduced to 2 points – 71:73. But free-throws made by Aleksandr Shcherbenev and Trushkin missed the thee and Loko took the win. Jaylen Barford did not have the brightest game (14 points, 6 out of 13 from the game) But his made shots at the end of the game allowed the hosts to win. 23 – that's how many turnovers Enisey has. Aggressive defense has become the key to success for Loko. Lokomotiv Kuban: road game against Samara on December 9 Enisey: home game versus UNICS on December 7.

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Q: Powershell change multiple users AD properties Still learning Powershell for AD and i have one question that is bothering me. Have to change AD properties for multiple users in AD within specific location, for example we have in same OU people from Berlin and from Washington, and cities are set in each profile, but im wondering if i need to get also properties before changing address for one of those locations like this Get-ADUser -filter 'City -like "Berlin"' -SearchBase 'OU=Users,OU=Staff,DC=Contoso,DC=com' -Properties StreetAddress, PostalCode | % {Set-ADUser $_ -Replace @{StreetAddress="New street 11";PostalCode="221202XX"}} or if it would work also without doing -Properties and just pipe filter City results to Set-ADUser Thank you. A: You do not need to specify -Properties unless you want to see them in the output. You also don't need the foreach, simply piping to Set-ADUser is sufficient. Get-ADUser -filter 'City -like "Berlin"' -SearchBase 'OU=Users,OU=Staff,DC=Contoso,DC=com' | Set-ADUser $_ -Replace @{StreetAddress="New street 11";PostalCode="221202XX"} This will update those values just fine. The same is true for filtering. The following command will filter on the postalcode but it will not be included in the output unless you add -Properties postalcode Get-ADUser -Filter "PostalCode -eq '221202XX'" A: Thank you for answer, i have left out -Properties and that seems fine, also tried but this won't work without foreach as i guess Set-ADUser does not know which of those users that are filtered out needs to be updated. So i had to use Get-ADUser -filter 'City -like "Berlin"' -SearchBase 'OU=Users,OU=Staff,DC=Contoso,DC=com' | % {Set-ADUser $_ -Replace @{StreetAddress="New street 11";PostalCode="221202XX"}} while if i use without foreach Get-ADUser -filter 'City -like "Berlin"' -SearchBase 'OU=Users,OU=Staff,DC=Contoso,DC=com' | Set-ADUser $_ -Replace @{StreetAddress="New street 11";PostalCode="221202XX"} i get error Set-ADUser : Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Identity'. The argument is null. Provide a valid value for the argument, and then try running the command again. but anyway, seems to be OK without -Properties which was my main concern

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There will be no new postings between Monday, January 24, 2007 and Sunday, January 8, 2008. If that offends you, try having a good holiday season. What is the difference between "aggravate" and "irritate"? Use the words in sentences that clearly show their meanings. The word for today is "rhapsodic". Define "rhapsodic" and use it in a seasonal sentence.

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Q: Transforming joint pdf from polar coodinate to Cartesian coordinate I'm studying probability by myself, and I encounter this problem: given $f_{r,\theta} = \frac{r}{2\pi\sigma^2}exp(\frac{-r^2}{2\sigma^2})$ find $f_{xy}$ I know that, $x^2 + y^2 = r^2 $, so I can just replace r: $f_{xy} = \frac{\sqrt{x^2 + y^2}}{2\pi\sigma^2}exp(-\frac{x^2 + y^2}{2\sigma^2})$ |J| What I'm having trouble is to find the Jacobian, I think it should be $J = \begin{bmatrix} \frac{\partial r}{\partial x} & \frac{\partial r}{\partial y} \\ \frac{\partial \theta}{\partial x} & \frac{\partial \theta}{\partial y} \end{bmatrix}$ where $\theta = tan^{-1}(\frac{y}{x})$ Is this correct?

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Sloths are the slow-moving mammals. They use their long claws to hang onto branches while they feast on the leaves that other animals can't reach. They spend most of the time in tree. Sloths can swim 3 times faster than they can move on land and can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes. They live solo lives. Sloths sleep from 15 to 20 hours per day, which can leave them very little time for social activities. Sloths in the wild, though, sleep about as much as humans. Sloths have a four-part stomach that very slowly digests the tough leaves they eat. Digesting this diet means a sloth has very little energy left to move around making it one of the slowest moving animals in the world.

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Stem Cell Research Big In Japan – Fight Aging! The Financial Times notes that German drug marker Schering is embarking on a big stem cell research and development venture in Japan. Legislative and cultural conditions in Asia are far more condusive to this sort of aging research. Japan even has a "Respect the Aged" holiday! From the article: "When compared to the situation in the US and especially when compared to Germany, the conditions for cell research in Japan appear to be the most modern. The Japanese government has fully recognised the needs and the challenges of an ageing society."

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Lid Productions is a production company based out of Philadelphia PA. It was founded by and named after Lydia "Lid" Peterson. Lid is a young videographer and photographer from Philadelphia. Surrounded by a cultured, urban and diverse scene she began to develop her creative eye. After studying media, television, movies, and photography at Temple University she took her talent, knowledge, and passion to her clientele, and Lid Productions was born. Since its inception Lid Productions has worked with for profit and non-profit organizations, startups, professional sports teams, companies, artists, magazines and models. Lid Productions helps to create visual content by capturing and developing their clients vision and sharing it with fresh eyes through editing, photography and videography. Apart from the clients there is also some original content coming out of Lid Productions as well. Be on the lookout for short films and tv series' and even feature films. If you're feeling ready to pose of you simply have a questions feel free to send an email or a DM on Instagram. In the meantime enjoy the art and check out shop and enjoy!

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Preview began life as Mac OS X's built-in graphics viewer—but in Panther, it's much more than that. It's now the program you use to view incoming faxes ( Chapter 13), as well as a nearly full-blown clone of Acrobat Reader (the free Adobe program that you use to read PDF files). Preview's hallmark is its surprising versatility. It can display and manipulate pictures saved in a wide variety of formats, including common painting formats like JPEG, TIFF, PICT, and GIF (even animated ones; you can add a Play button to the toolbar, as described below); less commonly used formats like BMP, PNG, SGI, TGA, and MacPaint; and even Photoshop, EPS, and PDF graphics. For the first time in Panther, you can crop graphics in Preview, chopping out unwanted sections. To do that, choose Tools→Select Tool (or click the dotted-rectangle tool on the toolbar). Drag across the part of the graphic that you want to keep, and then choose Tools→Crop Image ( -K).

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Q: Removing points from oxyplot line series (graph that wraps around back to beginning) I'm trying to make a line series graph in Oxyplot that wraps around back to the beginning, but I'm having a difficult time removing old points from the graph. I've tried both the Series.Remove and Series.RemoveAt methods, but neither have worked. My plot ends up tracing over itself, even when the remove method is returning true (indicating it thinks it successfully removed the data point). I have my animate method hooked up to an event which passes in the new data to add to the plot. I'm trying to clear (clearGap) number of points ahead of the new data so the new data can be distinguished from the old data. The try/catch is there to handle the first run through when there are no data points to remove yet. void AnimatePlot(double[] data) { clearIndex = plotIndex + clearGap; List<double> plotData = data.ToList(); RunOnUiThread(() => { for (int i = 0; i < plotData.Count; i++) { if (clearIndex < _plotBottomMax) { try { var res = lsPlot1.Points.Remove(lsPlot1.Points[clearIndex].); } catch (Exception e) { ; } clearIndex++; } else { clearIndex = 0; try { var res = lsPlot1.Points.Remove(lsPlot1.Points[clearIndex]); } catch (Exception e) { ; } clearIndex++; } if (plotIndex < _plotBottomMax) { lsPlot1.Points.Add(new DataPoint(plotIndex, plotData[i])); plotIndex++; } else { plotIndex = 0; lsPlot1.Points.Add(new DataPoint(plotIndex, plotData[i])); plotIndex++; } } //Unlock the plot so we can animate it _plotView.InvalidatePlot(true); }); } In case it isn't clear, points will be plotted until they reach the edge of the graph (_plotBottomMax), then the plot index will be reset to 0 and it will start again. How do you correctly delete points from a location within the series? EDIT: Binding the series to the plot: _lsPlot1 = new LineSeries { LineStyle = LineStyle.Solid, StrokeThickness = 1, Title = "Signal", YAxisKey = "yAxis", Color = OxyColor.FromRgb(255, 0, 0) }; //Add plot's LineSeries into the model _plotModel.Series.Add(_lsPlot1); //Set Plot View's Model plotView.Model = _ecgPlotModel;

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The almost-summer sun has begun to cast its heat upon the south side of our house. When first we planted the Thompson Seedless grapevine we realized it would need something to climb onto, to cling to, as we expected it to send forth branches. So we planted the vine alongside a shade arbor, designed and built by my husband. The arbor served to protect my bonsai plants transported from a cooler southern coastal climate to the hot summers of an inland valley. The lattice construction was adequate for the first few years of the vine's growth. In its seventh year, overhead extenders were added to the arbor to support the vigorously growing branches. As a bonus, we also received much-needed shade. Today, not quite summer, I look up to see branches reaching to the sky, standing straight up, not knowing where they will land. "This is another beginning," I muse. Not unlike newly-birthed Christian believers, the new leaves are tender. Their light yellow-green appearance says they are ready to be picked for the traditional dolmathes; like my mother taught me to make. My memories turn to that Mid-eastern delicacy made with a vegetarian filling of lots of chopped onions braised with rice in olive oil and flavored with dill, parsley, lemon juice, and sometimes mint, currants and pine nuts. Truly a gourmet treat, not for children, who, like me, had to learn to appreciate the tangy taste of the grapeleaf wrapping and all the time and work that was involved in the preparation. How like the grapevine the baby believer is! He needs all the help he can get just to hang on and continue along the right path. Young beginnings of fruit clusters need to find the right location to hang, to develop as they go. Soon, the sun's rays will get hotter and the leaves will toughen as branches thicken to support the expected heavy clusters of fruit. Early growth continues to need much attention from skilled hands that have known many seasons of change. And then, that's it! Branches bearing fruit are released with the Creator's power to be all they were meant to be. Still attached firmly to the vine, they continue to grow. Tied down, watered, tenderly cared for, the branches send out tendrils that feel their way along, attaching firmer still, until the fruit grows and ripens, fully perfected and ready to serve! Until that time, I'm content to enjoy the leafy stuffed dolmathes.

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August 17th, 2010 4:38pm - Quotebook: Five Kids * Seven-year-old: "Kara, why do you have little hairs under your arms?" Me: "Because I apparently need to shave." Seven-year-old: "Why do you have hair on your face?" Me: "Because I'm a woman!" Seven-year-old: "I thought only men were hairy." Me: "Yes, well, I'm hairy too." * Me (to the three-year-old): "How'd you sleep last night? I hope you slept well for your first day of kindy!" Three-year-old: "I didn't sleep last night. There were bears in the street. I saw them." Me: "Baby, there aren't bears in New Zealand." * Three-year-old: "Mum, teeth are like raisons." The mom: "Teeth are like raisons? That's what you said?" Three-year-old: "Yes, they're small and little and go in your mouth." * Three-year-old: "My doodle can play tricks!" * Five-year-old: "Kara, when the baby's grown up, you should marry him." Me: "Oh, hunny, he's too young for me." Five-year-old: "Then you should marry my older brother. He's nine." Nine-year-old: "We can't get married, stupid. People who are related have messed up babies." * The mom (to the three-year-old): "Don't do wees standing up!" Three-year-old: "I'm sorry, I did standing up wees." (Pee everywhere) The mom: "You're not big enough to do standing up wees." Three-year-old: "My doodle's tiny." The mom: "Yes, Daddy says you have to wait until your doodle's longer before you do standing up wees." * Seven-year-old: "I'm going to travel around the world and then go to California and find a man." * Seven-year-old: "I don't want Mummy to be a grandma." Me: "Why's that?" Seven-year-old: "I don't want her to have wrinkles." * Three-year-old (grabs my crotch): "Kara, do you have a doodle?" Me: "No, no, we've been over this. Boys have doodles. Girls don't." Three-year-old: "Mummy has a doodle." Me: "No, your mummy doesn't have a doodle. Your daddy does." Three-year-old: "Mummy's doodle is growing. I saw it." * Nine-year-old: "Do you know dentists?" Me: "Yes, I know dentists." Nine-year-old: "I don't think I could be a dentist." Me: "Why not?" Nine-year-old: "I don't like teeth. I'd vomit in people's mouths." * Three-year-old: "I love you and I love my toast." * Three-year-old: "When I'm nine, I'll be a real man with a real guitar." * Me: "What do you want to do this afternoon?" Three-year-old: "Touch a cloud." * Three-year-old: "I don't like my baby's hair like that." Me: "What do you want his hair to be like?" Three-year-old: "To be handsome like mine." Labels: Quotebooks August 26th, 2010 8:30am - August 2010 Quote of th... August 23rd 9:40am - Standing Up Wees August 22nd 10:28pm - Stuffed Bears and Penises August 14th 12:10pm - Kids Making Porn August 12th 9:32am - August 2010 Photo of the Month August 10th, 2010 10:34pm - Blindness and Depression August 3rd 12:40pm - Mini Titans and Underwear

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Q: Scala classOf for type parameter: how to call the function and how to restrict with upper type bounds I'm working with JAX-RS in Scala and trying to parameterise a call to: val jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(classOf[MyClassName]) I've been using ClassManifests as per the answer here but have a couple of things I'm still struggling with. As background, my JAX-RS representations all extend a stubbed Representation class: class Representation {} class ExampleRepresentation extends Representation { ... } So far I've defined my function using a ClassManifest like so: def get[R: ClassManifest](representation: R): String = { val jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(classManifest[R].erasure) ... } My first question is a bit of a silly one: how do I call this function? I can't figure out what to pass in to get() for the R type and the representation value (the accepted answer to the original question doesn't make this clear). I tried implicit typing as per paradigmatic's comment but the below generates a compile error: get(PlatformRepresentation) Compiling main sources... not found: value PlatformRepresentation My second question is: is it possible to apply an upper type bound on the R object? In other words, I know that: R <: Representation Is there a way of bounding this in get()'s ClassManifest type declaration? Many thanks! A: You need to suppress the argument if you don't have any: def get[R <: Representation: ClassManifest]: String = { val classManifest = implicitly[ClassManifest[R]] //to retrieve the class manifest } To call it: get[PlatformRepresentation] The type gets between square brackets. A: About your second question: yes, there is a way to do that: def get[R <: Representation: ClassManifest](representation: R): String When you declare type parameters, you may include one lower bound with >:, one upper bound with <:, and as many context bounds (with :) and view bounds (with <%) that you need. A: an example: scala> def b[T <: String : ClassManifest] (t:T) = t + " " + classManifest[T].era sure; b: [T <: String](t: T)(implicit evidence$1: ClassManifest[T])java.lang.String scala> b("hello") res2: java.lang.String = hello class java.lang.String EDIT @paradigmatic is right, in your case it should be scala> def c[T <: String : ClassManifest] = classManifest[T].erasure; c: [T <: String](implicit evidence$1: ClassManifest[T])java.lang.Class[_] scala> c[String]; res4: java.lang.Class[_] = class java.lang.String

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Q: errror with Describe Function on DATAFRAME Im trying to use the Describe function on a DataFrame to do some statistical analysis - see error message below - Any help would be greatly appreciated import pandas as pd from pandas import DataFrame as df y=[{'playerID':'bushje01','year':'1945','stint':'0','tmID':'FTW','lgID':'NBL','GP':'34','GS':'0','minutes':'0','points':'153','oRebounds':'0','dRebounds':'0','rebounds':'0','assists':'0','steals':'0','blocks':'0','turnovers':'0','PF':'92','fgAttempted':'0','fgMade':'61','ftAttempted':'43','PostfgAttempted':'0','PostfgMade':'3','PostftAttempted':'12','PostftMade':'7','PostthreeMade':'0'}, {'playerID':'doerngu01','year':'1945','stint':'0','tmID':'FTW','lgID':'NBL','GP':'11','GS':'0','minutes':'0','points':'21','oRebounds':'0','dRebounds':'0','rebounds':'0','assists':'0','steals':'0','blocks':'0','turnovers':'0','PF':'0','fgAttempted':'0','fgMade':'8','ftAttempted':'0','PostfgAttempted':'0','PostfgMade':'0','PostftAttempted':'0','PostftMade':'0','PostthreeMade':'0'}] pd.DataFrame(y) GP GS PF PostfgAttempted PostfgMade PostftAttempted PostftMade \ 0 34 0 92 0 3 12 7 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 PostthreeMade assists blocks ... minutes oRebounds playerID points \ 0 0 0 0 ... 0 0 bushje01 153 1 0 0 0 ... 0 0 doerngu01 21 rebounds steals stint tmID turnovers year 0 0 0 0 FTW 0 1945 1 0 0 0 FTW 0 1945 df.Describe(y) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in df.Describe(y) AttributeError: type object 'DataFrame' has no attribute 'Describe' Just wondering if anyone knows what this error A: You probably wanted to use: df.describe() Note lower case '.describe'

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Receive up-to-the-minute news updates on the hottest topics with NewsHub. Install now. Name Email address Password Confirm password Enter your email adress and we'll send you a password reset email Mexican police mount big hunt for kidnapped football player CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — Federal and state forces mounted a big search operation Sunday for Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido, who was abducted in the crime-plagued northern border state of Tamaulipas. The 25-year-old Pulido is a forward for Olympiakos of Greece and was part of Mexico's 2014 World Cup team, though he wasn't called up for the Copa America tournament that starts this coming week. "We have information that he was intercepted by armed persons and since then his whereabouts are unknown," said state Attorney General Ismael Quintanilla. The Tamaulipas Coordination Group that includes federal and state security agents said on its Twitter account that it was searching for the player. Reporters in the city saw an unusual deployment of troops and police in the streets, while at least two police or military-style helicopters flew overhead. A state official earlier said Pulido was kidnapped early Sunday after leaving a party near his hometown of Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, a state that has suffered battles between major drug gangs. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss a case under investigation. Authorities gave no further details about the kidnapping or a motive for the abduction, which happened a week before state elections to pick a new governor for Tamaulipas. "At this difficult time, our thoughts and prayers are with Alan," Olympiakos said on its official Twitter account in a message in both Spanish and English accompanied by a photograph of him. Former teammates on Mexico's national team went on social networks to offer their support for his welfare. "A shame what happened," goalkeeper Jesus Corona said on Twitter. "My prayers are with him and his family at this difficult time." Similar comments came in tweets by goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, defenders Diego Reyes and Miguel Layun and strikers Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez and Oribe Peralta, all of whom are in the United States of the Copa America competition. Pulido debuted and played several seasons with the club Tigres of Monterrey, whose Twitter account expressed solidarity with the player's family "in the difficult situation they are experiencing." Pulido left the Tigres in 2014 to play in Europe, though he has been in a dispute with the Mexican club about whether his contract there continues to be valid. I'm National team coach Carlos Osorio recently said Pulido has the quality to be on the squad but was left off the Copa America team due to the legal dispute. He had scored three goals in earlier call-ups. In the most recent season, he scored five times in eight appearances with Olympiakos. Source: sports.inquirer.net Share in social networks: URL was copied to clipboard Log in or authorize 1000 symbols left Enter text from image NewsHub archive in social networks You need to log in to access this page. Post about NewsHub on Facebook gh.newshub.org © 2012-2019 NewsHub.org. About NewsHub NewsHub Extension NewsHub Help

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Swatch Takes on Google, Apple With Watch Operating System Corinne Gretler, reporting for Bloomberg: Swatch said it's developing an alternative to the iOS and Android operating systems for smartwatches as Switzerland's largest maker of timepieces vies with Silicon Valley for control of consumers' wrists. The company's Tissot brand will introduce a model around the end of 2018 that uses the Swiss-made system, which will also be able to connect small objects and wearables, Swatch Chief Executive Officer Nick Hayek said in an interview Thursday. The technology will need less battery power and it will protect data better, he said later at a press conference. Switzerland's four-century-old watch industry has been adjusting to new competition since Apple entered its territory with the Apple Watch in 2015. Hayek faces the uphill challenge of trying to outsmart Google and Apple, which have fended off would-be rivals to their operation systems in smartphones and watches. ← Buying a Samsung TV Online Could Jeopardize Your Data News in brief: Yahoo 'was spear-phished'; McDonald's Twitter hijacked; Samsung moots face recognition for payments →

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Q: A DC - DC converter that needs a constant high on the enable pin? I'm trying to stabilize a battery output using a DC-DC converter. I got some Murata ICs for testing (LXDC2HL and LXDC2HN). The datasheet gives an example of the circuit: The EN pin confuses me. I need a DC-DC converter to get a stable power from the battery, but a prerequisite for it to work it needs an already stable 3.3V on the enabled pin. I'm failing to see the use case for this feature. Does this make the IC useless for a voltage regulation on an autonomous battery only powered circuit? A: I'm failing to see the use case for this feature. I use this feature on a similar DC-DC converter, because when the converter is disabled, its current drain is so low. On the converters you mentioned, the spec is max 2 uA leakage current when disabled. Does this make the IC useless for a voltage regulation on an autonomous battery only powered circuit? For some battery-powered designs, imho the opposite is true - this feature is especially useful! :-) That is because you can have a very low-power component (e.g. MCU mostly in sleep or stop mode) which is always powered from the battery, with suitable UVLO / brownout detector. That device then switches the EN pin of the DC-DC converter when required (e.g. depending on an MCU timer or a periodically-checked ADC reading etc.) which then supplies power to the relatively high-power components. So when the high-power components can be powered-down, this is commanded via the MCU and the DC-DC converter then draws just that maximum of 2 uA. For some battery-powered applications (e.g. those with intermittent power usage requirements) that increases the overall battery life, rather than leaving the DC-DC converter running permanently. Having this functionality built-in to the converter removes the need for a separate P-Channel MOSFET switch external to the converter, to achieve a similar type of power-down function. Summary: That is the "use case" where I have used a DC-DC converter "enable pin" feature. Of course those people who don't need that feature, can use the DC-DC converter with an enable pin in an "always-enabled" configuration. A: The easy answer is to connect Vin to EN. If you want the output to have a constant stable voltage, EN needs to be high. The equivalent circuit would be. simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

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Coconuts Bali BALI NEIGHBORHOODS NEWS, CRIME Domestic worker files police report against employer who allegedly poured boiling water on her for failing to find scissors By Coconuts Bali May 15, 2019 | 5:41pm Bali time EF's employer poured boiling water on her twice, with the help of EF's stepsister and the house's security guard. Photo: Wikimedia Commons A 21-year-old domestic worker from Java working in Bali has filed a report with the police after suffering burns all over body that she claims were caused by her employer pouring boiling water over her as a form of punishment. The domestic worker, identified by her initials EF, says the incident took place after her employer, identified as DMW, asked her to find a pair of scissors on the morning of May 7. Although she looked all over the house, EF was unable to find them. "I tried my best to look for it but I couldn't, so I had to receive a punishment," EF said, as quoted by Detik. She went on to explain that it was not only DMW who had poured the boiling water on her but also the house's security guard and even DMW's own stepsister, who was working in the same household as a babysitter. "It was a big pan full of water, and it happened twice. From the top of my head, all the way to my back, my arms, legs, everything," EF said. The incident took place last week, but EF only reported it to the authorities today. She says she managed to escape the house after what happened and sought refuge at a friend's place in Nusa Penida. All the while, she reportedly did not receive any kind of treatment for her injuries. After reporting to the Bali police, EF underwent a medical examination at a local police hospital, according to a report by the Jawa Pos network. The Detik report also quoted EF's lawyer, Supriyono, as saying that the police report was filed against DMW, EF's step-sister, as well as the security guard. "She (EF) has been working for seven months, but she has not been paid, and her step-sister was the one who recommended her to work there," Supriyono said. JOIN 53,000 SUBSCRIBERS. By signing up for our newsletters you agree with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You must be logged in as a Coconuts User to comment. Our latest and greatest original videos FBI seeking victims of Indonesia showbiz scam masterminded by the 'Con Queen of Hollywood' The United State's Federal Bureau of Investigations has created a... 'The earthquake was a good sign' because it occurred during full moon: Bali governor What does it mean when an earthquake strikes during a full moon... Seven people sustain minor injuries after Bali quake, officials reaffirm the island 'remains safe' Seven people sustained minor injuries and more than 44 buildings have... Lombok man faces imprisonment for complaining about earthquake aid on Facebook These days in Indonesia, it seems like one could get in a lot of... After Garuda, Lion Air prohibits taking photos and videos during flight without company's prior consent One could be forgiven for having reservations about taking photos or...

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Five blue LEDs form an LED bar. They are intended primarily for the indication of the RF signal strength (i.e. of the Wi-Fi signal). These LEDs are controlled through three GPIO lines 46, 47, and 48. GPIO46 is the reset line of the LED bar. Clearing this line sets all five outputs LOW and this turns all LEDs ON. GPIO47 is a clock line- a positive (LOW-to-HIGH) transition on this line "shifts in" the data on the data line. The LED control circuit is shown below. The reset line is not really necessary. You can be certain what pattern is displayed by the LEDs for as long as you generate five clock cycles every time you send new data into this circuit.

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17 Dialogues From Shah Rukh Khan's 'Fan' Will Give You GooseBumps 1.2k shares, 66 points Shahrukh Khan, this name is enough for his fans to bring in cinema hall. Whatever he is today… Just because of his handwork, patience, struggle and his believe in his fans. yes Fan movie is all about the connection between Star and his fans. There is number of dilogues in FAN, which no one can forgot. Like "Jo Apse Pyar Karta Hai,Uska Dil Todna Bhi To Crime He Hai Na", "Pehle Fan Star ke Peeche Bhagta Tha, Ab Star Fan Ke Peche Bhagega." Fan is a thriller film directed by Maneesh Sharma and featuring Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role, produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films, and tells the story of an obsessive fan of a star. The soundtrack album and original score are composed by Vishal–Shekhar and Andrea Guerra respectively. The film released on 15 April 2016 with positive reviews. Here are some of the amazing dialogues from the movie : 17 Dialogues From Shah Rukh Khan's 'Fan' Will Give You GooseBumps Do not forget to share and let us know your views please write in the comments section below. Like Us On Facebook : BoomIndya | Follow On Instagram Image Source : YRF This Spoof of FAN Trailer Is Hilarious 10 Then And Now Family Photos Of Bollywood Stars Will... More From: Quotes 15 Powerful Dialogues From Baahubali 2 Will Give You Goosebumps Quotes, Sports Virender Sehwag's Commentary Is Better Than His Batting. Check Here October 11, 2016 February 23, 2017 Quotes, Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan celebrating 73rd birthday, Check This Top 15 Dialogues Of All Time Quotes, Paul Walker We Will Miss You Forever… Paul Walker Quotes, Johnny Depp 15 Popular Quotes By Johnny Depp That Will Make You Feel Good 26 Life Changing Motivational Quotes for Entrepreneurs by Alok Kejriwal

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Copa Libertadores final postponed after Boca bus attacked in Buenos Aires Copa Libertadores: Boca wants to start focusing on match Real Madrid's Bernabeu to host all-Argentinian Copa Libertadores final Cartoonist of the tuber noses Guillermo Mordillo dies aged 86 Copa Libertadores final postponed again after bus attack Argentine submarine found year after disappearance – navy Baseball card fetches record $5.2 million amid rising market France's Peterhansel 'Mr Dakar' wins Rally for 14th time Biden plans dozens of Day One executive actions The all-Buenos Aires clash, the first time Argentina's two biggest clubs had met for the title, was billed as the greatest final in the competition's 58-year history but will instead be remembered for the violence that left players bleeding. General view inside the stadium before the second match of the Copa Libertadores Final at Antonio Vespucio Liberti Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina - November 24, 2018. (Reuters) Tense scenes between police and rioters in Buenos Aires on Saturday after the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final between River Plate and Boca Juniors was cancelled due to violence. The delay was announced after Boca players were hurt when their bus was attacked on its way into the stadium, organisers said. Some reports said Argentine police fired tear gas at River fans who were throwing missiles at the Boca bus and the gas got into the vehicle while others reported that the damage was caused by River fans. TRT World's Philip Owira reports. Boca officials told reporters some of their players were not fit to play in the match. Clarin said six players had vomited in the dressing-room after gas drifted into bus windows smashed by River fans outside the stadium. Boca and River drew the first leg 2-2 on Nov. 11. The incident comes three years after a Copa Libertadores last-16 tie between the same teams was abandoned at halftime after Boca fans attacked the River players with pepper spray in the tunnel. British government asks Premier League players not to hug FIFA releases report on sexual abuse of female football players in Haiti

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How do you access the output of iGpDispatch.ListIndexes method in VB.net? Hello. I am working on a program that will list the indexes in a featureclass. I am trying to use the iGpDispatch method of the geoprocessing object. I think I am doing good up to the point where I run the actual ???listindexes??? method. I am not how to handle the results of this method. and then get the properties I want? I played around with several ways, but the lack of IntelliSense suggestions leads me to believe I am wrong. Here is the code I have so far. Currently it is a standalone windows form executable so I am getting the feature class from a GxDialog and making it into a GxOBject. Any suggestions on ways to go would be most appreciated! .Title = "Choose File To Search For Indexes On" '' This is where i am stuck.

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Profession : Soldier/ Author / British Prime Minister Born : 1874-November-30 Birthplace : Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England Nationality : British Biography : Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and author. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964, except between 1922 and 1924. He represented a total of five constituencies. Churchill rallied the people of the United Kingdom during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory against the Axis Powers. Churchill was a member of the British aristocracy as a direct descendant of the 1st Duke of Marlborough on his father's side. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, and his mother was Jennie, a daughter of Leonard Jerome, a wealthy American businessman. Lord Randolph Churchill had been elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodstock, representing the Conservative Party in 1873. Initially, Churchill began his academics at St George's School in Ascot, Berkshire, but his behavior and academics were poor. He transferred to Brunswick School in Hove in 1884. His academic performance improved here. In April 1888, he narrowly passed the entrance exam for Harrow School. Later, he entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, on his third attempt. In September 1893, he was accepted as a cadet in the cavalry. Churchill married Clementine Churchill in 1908. Churchill joined the British Army in 1895. He was elected a Conservative Member of Parliament in 1900. But he defected to the Liberals in 1904. Churchill served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary in H. H. Asquith's Liberal Government. During the First World War, he performed duties as First Lord of the Admiralty. As First Lord of the Admiralty, he executed the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign, which caused his temporary departure from government. After, he performed duties successively as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, Secretary of State for Air, and Secretary of State for the Colonies, directing the Anglo-Irish Treaty and British foreign policy in the Middle East. Then, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government. In the 1930s, Churchill was out of government and took the lead in British rearmament to counter the growing threat of militarism in Nazi Germany. He was re-appointed First Lord of the Admiralty during the Second World War. In 1940, Neville Chamberlain resigned as Prime Minister, after losing a confidence vote in the House of Commons. Later, Winston Churchill became as British Prime Minister, replacing Neville Chamberlain on May 10th, 1940. During World War II, Churchill became famous for his rallying speeches, such as "we shall fight on the beaches" and "this was their finest hour." Also, Churchill was crucial in increasing British morale and inspiring resistance to Nazi Germany. Then, Churchill formed a national government and, he oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort against the Axis powers. As a result, the Allied could obtain victory in 1945 from World War II. In the 1945 general election, he became Leader of the Opposition due to the defeat of the Conservatives. Churchill returned as British Prime Minister in 1951. He resigned as Prime Minister in 1955 due to declining health. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his historical and biographical work. Churchill was also the first honorary citizen of the United States and one of the greatest prime ministers in the United Kingdom. Died : 1965-January-24 Cause of Death : Stroke Place of Death : Kensington, London, United Kingdom

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Home :: WMD :: Library :: News :: United Kingdom :: 2017 :: August :: New £48m contract for workboat fleet will support UK carriers and UK jobs, Defence Minister announces With the Royal Navy growing and Britain's flagship carrier now set to enter her new home, Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin has announced a £48 million contract for next-generation workboats which will support both British ships and British jobs. The fleet of up to 38 workboats will assist Royal Navy ships from UK bases and on operations all over the world. With Britain's flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth Carrier set to enter her new home in Portsmouth in under two weeks time, tasks to be carried out by the boats will include transferring personnel to and from both of the UK's carriers. Able to carry up to 36 passengers at one time, the workboats can be stowed inside the Carriers and winched to and from the water using on-board lifting equipment, allowing them to support the enormous ships either in port or on operations. Building and supporting the boats will also sustain 60 British jobs, including 15 at Atlas Elektronik UK near Dorchester in Dorset where the boats will be built. A further 45 jobs will be sustained across the supply chain, including at E P Barrus in Bicester, KPM-Marine in Birmingham and Mashfords in Plymouth. Defence Minister Harriett Baldwin said: "From the south coast to the banks of the Clyde, British shipbuilding is ensuring that our growing Navy has the reach it needs to protect our interests around the globe. These cutting-edge workboats will support the likes of our iconic new aircraft carriers and the Type 26 frigates, as well as sustaining 60 British jobs. This is another step in our £178 billion plan to provide our Armed Forces with the very best equipment to keep our country safe." Ranging in length from 11 to 18 metres, the boats will also perform other tasks including officer and diver training, Antarctic exploration and explosive ordnance disposal. They are highly adaptable to operational demands thanks to their cutting-edge modular design elements. For example, if the Royal Navy wished to quickly redeploy a boat from hydrographic survey duties to support diving for explosive ordnance, the survey module can be quickly lifted out of the boat and replaced with the diving module containing the high pressure air required for that task. The contract will enable the design and construction of up to 38 boats as well as in-service support for the fleet for a further two years after the final boat is accepted. The first boat will enter service next year. Chief Executive Officer of Defence Equipment and Support, the MOD's procurement organisation, Tony Douglas said: "These boats use modern materials and have been designed from the keel up to provide the Royal Navy with unparalleled flexibility and adaptability." "DE&S is proud to maintain excellent working relationships with partners across UK industry, ensuring our Armed Forces continue to be provided with the equipment they need while also maintaining vital British skills and jobs." The boats will all feature glass-reinforced plastic hulls and advanced twin waterjet propulsion. Despite their varying roles, they will all have the same steering and control system, reducing the need for training and making them simpler to operate.

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Daniel Vecchio is a litigator in the firm's Seattle office whose practice focuses on a wide range of commercial litigation. He has represented clients in federal securities class actions, derivative litigation, commercial arbitration, regulatory investigations, and trademark litigation. Prior to joining Garvey Schubert Barer, Mr. Vecchio was an associate at the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster LLP. Mr. Vecchio received his law degree from the University of California – Davis, where he was an articles editor for the UC Davis Law Review and served as a research assistant in the areas of contract law and scientific evidence. Before attending law school, Mr. Vecchio worked for a mutual fund research company based in northern California.

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Table of Contents & Reading Sample Andrew J. Niggemann Martin Luther's Hebrew in Mid-Career The Minor Prophets Translation [Martin Luthers Hebräisch in der Mitte seiner Laufbahn. Die Übersetzung des Zwölfprophetenbuchs.] 2019. XIV, 411 pages. Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation / Studies in the Late Middle Ages, Humanism, and the Reformation 108 Published in English. Apart from the Psalms, no book of the Hebrew Bible has yet been examined in any comprehensive manner in terms of Luther's Hebrew translation. In this study, Andrew J. Niggemann provides a full account of Martin Luther's Hebrew translation in his academic mid-career. He furthers the scholarly understanding of Luther's Hebrew by examining his Minor Prophets translation, one of the final pieces of his first complete translation of the Hebrew Bible. In this study, Andrew J. Niggemann provides a comprehensive account of Martin Luther's Hebrew translation in his academic mid-career. Apart from the Psalms, no book of the Hebrew Bible has yet been examined in any comprehensive manner in terms of Luther's Hebrew translation. Andrew J. Niggemann furthers the scholarly understanding of Luther's Hebrew by examining his Minor Prophets translation, one of the final pieces of his first complete translation of the Hebrew Bible. As part of the analysis, he investigates the relationship between philology and theology in his Hebrew translation, focusing specifically on one of the themes that dominated his interpretation of the Prophets: his concept of Anfechtung. He thus shows that by mid-career, the impact of Hebrew on Luther's Bible translation was immense and very diverse, more so than has been appreciated. He expands the frame of reference with which scholars can understand Luther's Hebrew. He provides detailed analyses of many examples of his Hebrew translation which have never before been discussed or examined in any depth, and hundreds of examples of his methodological handling of Hebrew translation issues. He also includes one of the most exhaustive analyses to date of three key philological challenges that confronted Luther in translating the Bible: Hebrew figures of speech, the Hebrew trope of repetition, and Hebrew transliteration. Likewise included as an appendix is a substantial body of refined data from Luther's Hebrew translation, which further illuminates the examples in this study, and facilitates additional analysis for future research. The PhD dissertation this book is based on was awarded the Coventry Prize for the PhD dissertation in Theology with the highest mark and recommendation, University of Cambridge, St. Edmund's College in 2018. Andrew J. Niggemann 1995 BA in Psychology and BBA in Marketing, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA); 2000 BBA in Management Information Systems, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (USA); 2014 MA in Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity, Marquette University (USA); and 2018 PhD in History, Theology, and Religious Studies, University of Cambridge (UK). The following reviews are known: In: Theologische Literaturzeitung — 145 (2020), pp. 968–970 (Stefan Seiler) In: Reformation — 25 (2020), pp. 193–194 (Jake Wiseman)

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Joe Biden's next big decision: Choosing a running mate By: By BILL BARROW Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden expects to name a vice presidential vetting committee next week. That's according to three Democrats with knowledge of the situation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans. He has already committed to picking a woman as his running mate. Biden told donors during a virtual fundraiser that his team has discussed naming his choice well ahead of the Democratic convention in mid-August. Biden must consider the demands of a diverse party. And he's stated his desire for a governing partner who is "simpatico" with his approach and "ready to be president on a moment's notice."

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Subject: The Square Share Price Hinges on These Two Factors (NYSE: SQ) URL: http://mney.co/1QHmlNS − one = three Required Please enter the correct value. The Square Share Price Hinges on These Two Factors (NYSE: SQ) By Jack Delaney, Associate Editor, Money Morning • November 16, 2015 Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ) will start trading on Thursday, Nov. 19, following one of the most anticipated IPOs of 2015. The Square share price range is set between $11 and $13. Square plans to raise $324 million through the IPO, which would place the Square IPO valuation at $4.2 billion after the deal. Part of the reason for the huge valuation is its rapidly growing industry. The mobile payment industry is expected to reach $142 billion in volume by 2019, according to a report from research firm Forrester. And now, many investors view SQ stock as a long-term investment. But for those looking to buy Square stock, these are the two biggest factors that will affect the Square share price after the IPO… Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ) Isn't Profitable The first major factor that will impact the Square share price is the company's ability to turn a profit. Square Inc. reported net losses of $154.1 million in 2014 and lost $77.6 million during the first half of 2015. In fact, Square stated in its IPO filing that it may never be profitable. "Our business has generated net losses, and we intend to continue to invest substantially in our business," the Square IPO filing said. "Thus, we may not achieve or maintain profitability." These are Square's net losses since 2012: 2012: $85.2 million 2013: $104.5 million 2014: $154 million Square also lost a significant source of revenue in 2015, when Starbucks Corp. (Nasdaq: SBUX) chose not to re-sign its contract from 2012. Starbucks accounted for 14% of Square's revenue in 2014. But losing Starbucks' business may actually end up being a good thing for Square… Even though Starbucks accounted for 14% of Square's revenue last year, Square has lost $71 million since working with Starbucks in 2012, according to CNN Money. Starbucks also accounted for 21% of Square's transaction costs in 2015. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey is under immense pressure to show a path to profitability for the mobile payment company. And his leadership of the company is the second major factor that will impact the Square share price… Tags: 2015 IPO, sq stock, square ipo, square ipo date, square ipo price, square share price, square shares, square stock price, Squares earnings SQ 0.14 (0.20%) 69.38

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Voici la liste de batailles de l'Histoire de la Régence d'Alger depuis la Prise du Peñon d'Alger en 1529 jusqu'à l'Expédition d'Alger par la France en 1830 et la signature de la Convention franco-algérienne du 5 juillet 1830 à Alger, qui met fin au régime de la régence d'Alger. Elle comprend les plus importantes batailles menées par les différents régimes qui se sont succédé et qui ont fait l'histoire militaire de la régence d'Alger. 1516 – 1688 : Beylerbeys-Pashas-Aghas 1688 – 1830 : Dey d'Alger Références Crédit d'auteurs Articles connexes Liste des batailles Chronologie de l'Algérie Histoire militaire de l'Algérie Liste des guerres de l'Algérie Régence d'Alger Bataille impliquant l'Algérie Régence d'Alger Histoire de l'Algérie Algerie Côte des Barbaresques Liste de batailles

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This classical piece depicting the three Charites, figures of Greek mythology, known as the three Graces. Goddesses of charm, beauty, nature human creativity and fertility .Taken from the original which hangs in the Louvre. 3 Graces Wall Plaque, a Garden Stone Ornament.

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Home Accessories Safes & Locks Pistol Safes: We Compare Four Todd Woodard - December 30, 2019 Dry-Fire Laser Training Devices Buying Self-Defense Insurance: Important Factors to Consider American-Made 9mms: Ruger, Springfield, and Honor Defense 22-Caliber Handgun Shoot-Out: Smith, TacSol, Beretta, Colt 308 Winchester Bolt-Actions: Remingtons M783 Rifle Wins Safes & Locks estaff - February 17, 2017 Among the most useful, versatile, and powerful all-round sporting rifles is the 308 Winchester bolt action. These rifles are accurate, reliable, and can take on small to big game in many hunting conditions. When married with a good optic and in competent hands, they are well suited to take a 200-pound target at 200 yards and beyond, as a rule of thumb. The chambering is a joy to use and fire, compared to hard-kicking magnums, and offers plenty of recreational value. The bolt-action 308 is also a useful tactical rifle in many situations, and the round is widely used by law enforcement across the country. We recently took a hard look at four bolt-action rifles chambered in 308 Winchester, with a special emphasis on looking for affordable options. So we chose two used rifles and one lower-cost new rifle and compared them to a rifle in a higher price range to ensure we weren't missing something that more dollars could provide. These rifles included the now-discontinued Mossberg ATR, the Remington 783, the Remington 700 SPS, and the Savage Axis. In this quartet, we shot three loads for accuracy testing and another load in offhand fire to gauge the accuracy of the rifles. As it turns out, the economy combination rifle that comes from the factory with a bore-sighted scope is a good deal. Though the Remington 783 was the most accurate rifle, we also liked the Remington 700 SPS a lot. Overall, however, the Savage Axis combination seems a best buy. Let's look hard at these rifles and delve into why we made these choices and to see if you agree with our assessments. Mid-Caliber Bolt-Action Rifles From T-C, Browning, and CZ USA Safes & Locks estaff - January 27, 2017 Recently, we assembled a panel and arrived at what could be described as a list of practical considerations for choosing an all-around rifle. Not a specialty piece, mind you, but a "daily driver," so to speak. Our test team came up with three considerations we wanted: power, accuracy, and portability. We agreed that in terms of power, we'd like to be able to hunt at least some deer-sized animals, but not with so much power that the rifle was too heavy to carry or generate so much recoil that it was unpleasant to shoot. To us, this meant short-action calibers greater than 223 Remington but less than 308 Winchester. In terms of accuracy, it wasn't long ago that producing a 1-inch group at 100 yards (1 minute of angle) was a high standard. Certainly 1 MOA is still a benchmark, but recent state-of-the-art machinery has made it possible to buy such guns over the counter. And last, but certainly not least, there's portability. Today, that is just as likely to mean aboard an ATV as it is over the shoulder. Either way, slender and compact is still the desired profile. Thus, the focus of this test became four bolt-fed short-action rifles in medium or midrange cartridges. The lineup was as follows: We had intended to keep the maximum length of our rifles to less than 40 inches, but we decided to include the 41.5-inch-long Thompson Center Compass because we were eager to find out if this $399 rifle chambered for 22-250 Remington had recovered since its sudden recall for safety issues. Adding to its appeal was its threaded barrel, ready for a suppressor or muzzle brake. Our shortest rifle was also chambered for 22-250. The $859 Browning X-Bolt Micro Midas offered a Grade 1 satin-finish walnut stock with 12.5-inch length of pull and about one additional inch of stock spacers. The Micro also weighed the least, as little as 6.1 pounds unloaded. In the middle we chose the newest model 557 from CZ USA. The Sporter Short Action chambered for 243 Winchester was perhaps the most traditional rifle, with a checkered walnut stock. The least traditional rifle, at least in terms of appearance, was the Howa Mini Action rifle from Legacy Sports International. Its multi-cam finish, 6.5 Grendel chambering, and 10-round detachable box magazine set it apart from the others. The right size overall, we hoped the big magazine sticking out the bottom would not make the Howa too difficult to pack. Reproduction M1 Carbines: We Test Auto-Ordnance and Inland Manufacturing Models The M1 Carbine was adopted during World War II, then proceeded to arm our soldiers during the Korean War and Vietnam War, making it one of the most widely produced of all U.S. Military rifles. Millions were produced, and at one time, surplus models were quite common and inexpensive. Try finding a vintage M1 Carbine today, and you will pay close to $1000 for a well-used specimen. Costs, however, will vary dramatically depending on which manufacturer produced the M1 Carbine, the model, features, and condition. We opted to test two new M1 Carbine reproductions, the M1 1945 Carbine from Inland Mfg. (not the original Inland Mfg. but a new company) and the M1 Carbine Paratrooper from Auto-Ordnance (A-O). We looked at these two Carbines for historical accuracy, for competition use in M1 Carbine Matches, and as a home-defense choice. In our opinion, the Inland is suitable for all three, where the A-O is not competition ready, but it satisfies the other two roles pretty well. Bottom line, our test team found these two carbines to be reliable, depending on the ammunition employed, offer good performance if the cartridge is used within its limits, and unlike some other M1 Carbines our testers have fired in the past, these two reproductions are accurate enough for nearly any use. 2016 Guns & Gear Top Picks Safes & Locks estaff - November 22, 2016 Toward the end of each year, I survey the work R.K. Campbell, Roger Eckstine, Austin Miller, Robert Sadowski, David Tannahill, Tracey Taylor, John Taylor, Rafael Urista, and Ralph Winingham have done in Gun Tests, with an eye toward selecting guns, accessories, and ammunition the magazine's testers have endorsed. From these evaluations I pick the best from a full year's worth of tests and distill recommendations for readers, who often use them as shopping guides. These choices are a mixture of our original tests and other information I've compiled during the year. After we roll high-rated test products into long-term testing, I keep tabs on how those guns do, and if the firearms and accessories continue performing well, then I have confidence including them in this wrap-up. Bigger 9mms Handguns: SIG, Arsenal, and Beretta Go At It Safes & Locks estaff - October 26, 2016 As noted earlier in this issue, 9mm auto-loading pistols are among the most commonly purchased firearms in America for pleasure, competition, and defense. These guns are offered in many styles and price points, ranging from a few hundred to several thousands of dollars. While the handguns in this comparison are not top-end, highly customized pistols costing thousands of dollars, they are generally marketed as being well above average quality in fit, features, and capabilities. In this comparison, we test five pistols, three of which were built by SIG Sauer, one by Beretta, and one newcomer from Arsenal. The SIGs tested are the classic P210, the P226 MK25 used by the U.S. Navy SEALS, and the relatively new P320. The Beretta tested is the recently updated M9A3. The fifth gun is the new Strike One from Arsenal. For our evaluation, we used three different 9mm loads from three different manufacturers in two different weights and two different bullet styles. As always, the guns in question were shot by multiple testers (this time three men and three women) of different backgrounds. We did our accuracy testing at Boyert Shooting Centers, an indoor range in Houston, and followed the standard accuracy protocol of collecting five 5-round groups at 25 yards from a rest for each pistol/ammunition combination. For this test, we also performed a speed drill. The speed drill involved starting from a low-ready position, shooting twice to the chest and once to the head of a silhouette paper target. This test was performed at 7 yards by one experienced tester with large hands. The speed test was performed after the familiarization shooting, but before the accuracy testing. The tester was given only one opportunity to perform the test. As these pistols are supposed to be superior to the average offering, our team expected above-average results and graded accordingly. Though all five pistols turned in good results and had their fans, the testing yielded one clear surprise winner. Big-Bore Snubnoses Around $500: Charter Arms and Taurus Safes & Locks estaff - September 16, 2016 We recently reviewed three 38 Special revolvers that cost about $400 and thought we would increase our budget and caliber size, and then sourced three revolvers each costing about $500 in three different big-bore calibers: 44 Special, 45 ACP, and 45 Colt, often called 45 Long Colt (LC) to ensure it's not mixed up with the Auto Colt cartridge. The three revolvers included two Charter Arms products, the Classic Bulldog in 44 Special and the newer Pitbull in 45 ACP, plus the Taurus Public Defender Polymer chambered in .410 shotshell and 45 LC. Even though these were new revolvers, we still performed a range-rod test since there was a bit of side-to-side wiggle in the cylinders of all the revolvers. Range rods check the alignment of the chambers to the barrel bore. We also noted that the action of the Taurus seemed a bit stiff; our initial dry firing in double action found the cylinder would not fully index to the next chamber at times. Dry firing took care of the indexing issue, and all passed the range rod test. We also noted during the range-rod test the barrel of the Pitbull was not fully screwed into the frame. It was off by a fraction of a turn, enough to cock the front sight to the left when aiming the revolver. It is unacceptable that a gun leaves the factory in this condition. We anticipated and needed to use Kentucky windage with the Pitbull at the range. In the past Charter Arms revolvers have been favorably rated, but in these two examples we found exception. The not-fully-screwed-down barrel was also the reason the cylinder-to-barrel gap was so large. We measured the gap between the front of the cylinder and the forcing cone at the rear of the barrel using feeler gauges from Brownells (606-950-252WB) and found a gap of 0.010 inches for the Pitbull and the Bulldog Classic and the Taurus at 0.005 inch. A gap of 0.003 inches is desirable for a competition revolver, but up to 0.006 inches is often found. A large gap allows more gas to escape, reducing the bullet's velocity. It also means there is more flash, and if the chamber and cylinder are not perfectly aligned, a user might experience splash from burning powders and bits of shaved bullet metal. We did not experience any splash with the Charter Arms revolvers. We did note that the Classic Bulldog had about 30 fps more than the published data for Hornady Critical Defense165-grain FTX bullet, which is 900 fps out of 2.5-inch barrel. The 3-inch barrel of Bulldog must have helped increase velocity. The Pitbull had noticeably less muzzle velocity compared to factory data. We assumed the reduction came because the Pitbull has a 2.5-inch barrel and the factory data for the cartridges use either a 4- or 5-inch barrel. Reduced muzzle velocity also occurred in the Taurus. A common feature of all three revolvers was a safety transfer bar. This system prevents the hammer from striking the firing pin unless the trigger is pulled fully to the rear. These revolvers are made for close-in work, but we still tested accuracy out to 25 yards. Since the Taurus offers the ability to fire .410 shotshells as well as cartridges, we sourced some CCI shot cartridges in 44 Special. CCI manufactures shotshells in 45 ACP, but warns against using the the cartridges in revolvers since the crimp that holds the shot in the cartridge case may interfere with the rotation of cylinder after being fired. One of our team members regularly carries a revolver loaded with bird shot cartridges and bullet cartridges when we walks his dog in the woods. He's equipped to deal with snakes as well as bears, depending on what chamber he lets fly. Glock Night Sights: We Test Glow-in-the-Dark Aiming Aids Safes & Locks estaff - June 10, 2016 As a carry handgun, the Glock is rugged, reliable, and combat worthy. About the only modifications that actually improve the Glock are the addition of a better trigger and a set of aftermarket sights. We dealt extensively with the issue of trigger replacements in the April 2014. There, we installed a Zev Technologies' GlockWorx Ultimate kit from Brownells.com ($250, #100-006-566WB, Mfr. Part: ZTFULULT4G9BLK) into our Glock 17. We gave the Ultimate Kit an A grade, saying it "was the upgrade that produced the biggest difference in performance all by itself, increasing the accuracy of the Glock 17 from an average grouping of 2.3 inches down to 1.6 inches." Also in the April 2014 issue, we looked at two sight-upgrade kits, both from Brownells. One was the Brownells Glock 17 Sight Upgrade Kit ($200, #080-000-919WB), which included a Meprolight (Kimber) ML-10224 Tru-Dot Night Sight System for Glock 17, 19, 22, 23, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39; an MGW Glock Sight Adjustment Tool, and an Ed Brown Front Sight Tool for Glock. Since we had the installation tools handy, we also ordered a set of TruGlo tritium fiber-optic Brite-Sites ($90, #902-000-107WB, Mfr. Part: TG131GT1Y), yellow rear and green front. We chose to put the TruGlo sights on the Glock 17 and the Tru-Dots on a G34 so that we could shoot them side by side. With the Ed Brown Front Sight Tool for Glock ($20 sold separately, #087-017-001WB, Mfr. Part: 952) and the MGW Glock Sight Mover ($100 sold separately, #584-045-017WB, Mfr. Part: MGW309) for the rear sight, we started the switch with a disassembly of the slide to get access to the front sight. With the Ed Brown front sight tool and a small crescent wrench, we loosened the screw beneath the sight and removed it, then replaced the white dot with the new TruGlo front sight and tightened with the crescent wrench. Once the front sight was swapped, we hooked the slide into the MGW. The device came with some thin plates to raise the slide up the right height. We did not need them. The old sight drifted out with relative ease, going left to right pointed away from us. The new rear TruGlo sight did require some minor fitting with a file and a little more strength to slide in, but with the MGW tool, leverage was not a problem. We used the same process to put the Meprolite sights onto a factory Glock 34. Despite the new TruGlo sights being fixed like the originals, we found them to be much clearer and easier to acquire and reacquire targets. We took to the range with the TruGlo sights installed, using all other original parts, and we cut our average group size down by almost half an inch, from 2.3 inches with the standard Glock to 1.9 inches with the TruGlo sights. We turned down the lights over the shooters, leaving the targets illuminated to check out how much the tritium would glow in the fiber-optic sights. The green front sight was quite bright, while the rear yellow sights were significantly dimmer, although still visible. The Meprolight Tru-Dots provided an even more impressive change on the G34. We shaved just over a full inch off our average group size at 10 yards once we installed them. Upgrading fixed sights can seem like a challenge to someone who hasn't done work on pistols previously, but with these tools and the simplicity of Glock's designs, this upgrade is a great place to start if you want to attempt a DIY project. You can drift the sights out with a punch, which will save $100 for the MGW tool, but you risk rupturing the tritium capsules. The MGW mover requires oil on the crankshaft, but it made drifting the dovetail sights in and out so easy we quickly misplaced our punch set. Overall, we found the TruGlo sights to be a nice upgrade and would recommend putting them in place of the standard non-tritium sights on any factory Glock. We gave them a Grade: A ranking, along with the Meprolight Tru-Dot tritium. Naturally, readers asked about other sights, so we began looking at more replacements we could test head to head, rather than as a general Glock upgrade. So, again working with Brownells, we assembled a sextet of night sights suitable for installation on various Glocks. Also, we believe you can broaden our recommendations to include other firearms of similar size — the visual presentation won't be appreciably different on different platforms — though the installation process may differ gun to gun. More Laments for Custom Guns Safes & Locks estaff - March 8, 2016 Like Grant said in last month's letters section, I, too, lament the passing of the pride of custom-gun ownership and the common look of the Ubiquitous Black Gun. But, as was said, black guns are cheap and proven reliable. Also, I cannot justify carrying a nice custom pistol on the off chance that I might have to use it. In that case, I would have to surrender it to the police, and then it would be months at a minimum to maybe get it back by jumping through their hoops. Yes, I would rather carry a "Rolex"-quality sidearm, but I often think that if I had to give up my Valtro, I'd don't know what I'd do. A black gun I can give up with no emotion, and go home and get another one. I always enjoy the magazine, from the editorial remarks to the last page. — Dave S&W J-Frames Now With Lasers Safes & Locks estaff - August 13, 2015 Smith & Wesson Corp. will make three more lightweight J-Frame revolvers — the Model 442, Model 637, and Model 638 — available with factory installed LaserMax CenterFire laser sighting systems. They join the popular Model 642, which was equipped with a factory-installed LaserMax CenterFire laser in January 2015. The factory-installed CenterFire laser is designed to fit the revolver frame. Located under the bore, the new sight features LaserMax's Controlled Activation feature, which enables the user to operate from concealment without revealing his or her position. Tactical Pump Shotguns: CZ-USA HC Versus Weatherby Safes & Locks estaff - May 14, 2015 Specific-use firearms such as tactical shotguns that are designed for self-defense situations are held to a higher standard than other shooting tools. If a self-defense shotgun fails to function or inadequately performs at the wrong time, there is no such thing as a do-over. Admittedly, most of these shotguns will never be fired in a life-or-death situation and generally don't see a lot of time on the shooting range. That does not mean the tactical shotgun owner does not demand the shooting tool, when it is necessary, handle its duties in an efficient and effective manner. This is the first of two tactical pump-action shotgun evaluations. The next head-to-head match will feature a Tristar TEC-12 Pump/Auto 12 gauge listing for $689 against a Mossberg Model 590 Magpul Pump 12 gauge listing for $773. In that review, we will also name Our Pick of the four shotguns put through exactly the same test drills. For this test, we selected a couple moderately priced pumps to see how they fared on the shooting range and whether they met the high standards of a firearm that might mean the difference between life and death. The two 12-gauge pump-action shotguns, both available for less than $500, that we put through their paces are the Weatherby PA-459 TR with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $499 and the CZ-USA Model 612 HC-P 12 gauge (last reviewed in October 2013) listing for $366. When a shooter absolutely, positively, without-a-doubt has to stop a threat, he or she can't have doubts about whether a firearm will function in a proper and effective manner. Not only does the self-defense firearm have to perform well, a shooter must have confidence the pattern will be placed on target in an effective manner. Also, a key element in any self-defense training is that the shooter is responsible for any lead that comes down the barrel in a shooting situation. Wounding or killing an innocent bystander with an errant pellet or slug is simply unacceptable on both moral and legal levels. Spending time on the range to know how well a shotgun performs is a necessary factor with self-defense shotguns. Understanding that a typical tactical firearm packs quite a punch on both ends, we endured quite a bit of shoulder shock in conducting evaluations on these firearms. We encourage individuals who purchase these firearms do the same so they will become familiar with their specific self-defense tool. Our ammunition for putting the two close-quarter shotguns into play included Rio Royal Buck 2.75-inch loads moving nine pellets of No. 00 buckshot at an average muzzle velocity of 1,345 fps; and Winchester Reduced Recoil Winlite 2.75-inch loads pushing 0.9-ounce 400-grain Sabot Slugs with an average muzzle velocity of 1,450 fps. In addition, our repeated function-fire and cycling rounds as part of the testing sequence were Remington ShurShot Heavy Dove 2.75-inch loads with 11⁄8 ounces of No. 6 shot moving at an average of 1,255 fps. Rather than the standard patterning board used for our other shotgun testing, we utilized Birchwood Casey Eze-Scorer 23-inch by 35-inch Bad Guy and the same size Targets Online paper images of potential threats for our shots in home-defense simulations; and Champion VisiColor Zombies 12-inch by 18-inch Slasher Tusks targets for slug shots at 25 yards. On the zombies, only head shots were counted as acceptable results with the slug ammo. Here are our findings: A Quartet of Pocket Pistols from SIG Sauer, Glock, Kahr, and Colt Many concealed-carry customers pooh-pooh pistols chambered in 380 ACP as being underpowered for self defense, but they may well be in the vocal minority, because sales of 380-chambered handguns and ammunition continues apace, with more of the smallish sidearms finding their way into pockets and purses than ever before. It can be argued, in fact, that Glock kept seeing its rivals sell so many inexpensive-to-make pocket pistols that the Austrians were forced into the U.S. 380 ACP market with the G42 just so they could grab a slice of the ever-growing pocket-pistol pie. At Gun Tests, we have mined this lode plenty ourselves, finding quite a few worthy pocketguns and pocketguns-plus over the years. We have previously given A grades to a new CZ USA Model 83 No. 91302, a Bersa Firestorm, a Colt Mustang Pocketlite, and a Kel-Tec P3AT. A half-grade down at A- grades have been the Ruger LCP-CT, a used Beretta Model 84 and CZ Model 83, a Ruger LC380 No. 3219, and a Taurus 738B No. 1-73803. Our new e-book on 380s, available on the Gun-Tests.com website, recaps those guns and six more B+ or B pistols, or you can search for "380 ACP" in the archives and pull up the entire list of such firearms we've evaluated over the years. We think many consumers like these pistols because most of them are easy to carry and conceal, and they're willing to trade off the "carry everywhere" portability for slightly less power than some 38 Specials, for example. Our tests of several 380 ACP self-defense loads had three (Federal 90-gr. Hydra-Shok JHP, Speer 90-gr. Gold Dot JHP, and Fiocchi 95-gr. FMJ) that penetrated at least 13.5+ inches in water, very close to what a Remington 125-gr. JHP 38 Sp. +P did as a control — and not too many experts say the 38 Special is "too little" gun. This round, we tested three brand-new models and one variation of a previously tested model as a reference point. The first of the new models was the Colt Mustang XSP Pocketlite Polymer O6790, MSRP $649, but which we found at ImpactGuns.com for $565 and $572 at BudsGunShop.com. Or Bud's would sell it for a cash price of $555. Next up was the Glock 42 Subcompact Slimline, MSRP $480, which SlickGuns.com had for sale at $490 plus free shipping. Bud's listed it for $437 or $424 cash. Kahr's CW 380 No. 3833, $419 MSRP, comes in at a $322 retail price at Bud's or a $313 cash discount price. At GeorgiaGunStore.com, the price was $312. The fourth entry was a P238 from SIG Sauer, No. 238-380-NBS12, with a hefty MSRP of $710 and a retail price of $498 from Bud's Gun Shop (but listed as out of stock the last time we checked), or $583 from TombstoneTactical.com or $520 from JoeBobOutfitters.com. In more detail, the polymer Colt XSP is one of two Mustangs in the company's 380 line. Colt ceased production of the Mustangs in 2000 then reintroduced the line in 2011. The new guns are designed to accept original parts. Both have stainless-steel slides, measure 5.5 inches in length, have 2.75-inch barrels, and operate with short single-action trigger function, or like miniature 1911s. The Mustang Pocketlite has an aluminum frame, while the XSP, introduced in 2013, has a lightweight polymer skin. According to company specs, the polymer XSP is about an ounce lighter than the Pocketlite. The new Glock 42, made in Georgia, is a slimline subcompact pistol and is the smallest pistol Glock has ever introduced, but it's not the company's first 380 Auto. The Glock 25 was introduced in 1995 in Germany as a small-dimension firearm for markets where civilian personnel are not allowed to possess handguns featuring military calibers. In the USA, the G25 is reserved for law-enforcement agencies only. Like the G25, the Glock 28 is reserved for LE. The G25 is 7.36 inches long, 5 inches tall, and has a capacity of 15+1. The G28 is 6.41 inches long, 4.7 inches tall, and has a capacity of 10+1. Both are noticeably larger than our tested G42, which was 5.94 inches long, 4.13 inches tall, and has a capacity of 6+1. Marketed for pocket carry and to shooters with smaller hands, the single-stack G42 lacks the interchangeable backstraps of other Glocks, but field-strips the same way as other larger Glocks. .410 Handguns and Long Guns To Consider for Self Defense Safes & Locks estaff - July 24, 2012 After reading the test of .410-bore shotshells adjacent, shooters may wonder what guns are good choices to shoot the small-gauge self-defense rounds. While we can't attest to how a given gun will work with a given shell, we can recommend some firearms that generally suit the .410 shotshell in home-defense situations. About a year ago, Ray Ordorica compared two handguns chambered for the .410 shotshell, the S&W Governor 45 ACP, 45 LC, 410/2.5-inch, $679; and the Taurus Judge Model 4510TKR-3BUL 45 LC/410 2.5-inch, $620. We learned back then that these handguns performed better with smaller shot. Ray first patterned the Gov at 3 yards, which gave a pattern with Winchester Super-X No. 7.5 shot that fit onto a sheet of 8.5-inch x 11-inch paper. At 5 yards from the muzzle, the pattern with the Governor spread to about 18 inches. This was far superior to what we got with shot loads from the Judge, he reported, which would spread to about a foot at only 3 feet. The same held true with the #4 shot. The Governor's pattern slightly overlapped a sheet of paper with a spotty pattern fired from 9 feet, but at that same range the Judge barely struck the paper. At 15 feet, the pattern differences were astounding. The Smith Governor put all its shot into a 17-inch circle. The Judge put its shot into a 34-inch circle, twice the diameter. The Judge's pattern had many holes, but the Governor's pattern was even, and quite impressive. The shotshell results very much favored the Smith & Wesson. With 000 buck from 20 feet, the results from both guns were spotty. He concluded the maximum range for 000 buck is about 20 feet.

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Forget going global: localism is where it's at November 05, 2015 by Marian Salzman, Havas PR Localism - the mashing together of local focus and global awareness - has echoes of that old activist mantra "Think global, act local," but with a 21st-century twist. For a long time, the thing to do was "Go global." It wasn't that hard, and got increasingly easier, with the evolution of technology and the availability of goods and services from pretty much anywhere. Compared with previous generations, we are all more globally connected and aware, and more affected by global events. In the end, we didn't have to "go global" as we became globalists by default. But then, we as citizens were instructed (and as marketers were instructing) to act, buy, eat, and even love locally (hey, there, Tinder) while thinking globally. Such talk began really burbling up toward the end of the recession, when more of us had a little money in our pockets but were still feeling protective of it and wanted to spend it thoughtfully. As the exhilaration of being able to tap into limitless virtual connections wears off simultaneously, more of us have felt a very real desire for flesh-and-blood sensory experiences that connect us to places. A lot of what we learned from our immersion in the world beyond our reach is coming home to feed our local yearnings. Consumers have come to appreciate products that derive from a specific place with its own standout character and quirks. It's what the French call terroir – the tangible sense of a place with its own distinctive conditions, taste, and story. It's a premium branding point for products imported from special places abroad, like Parma ham and Champagne, but it's also becoming increasingly desirable if that somewhere is local and familiar and wears its origins with pride. These were among the observations that led Havas PR North America, the agency where I am CEO, to field a survey of Americans about their feelings of connectedness. We found that because the wider world is largely perceived as going to hell in a hand basket, many of us are hunkering down. The majority of respondents identify themselves as "a hometown person" (53%), prefer to shop locally if possible (65%), and even prefer to have sex locally; 75% said they prefer great sex in their own bed to great sex in a hotel bed. As more of us curate a local life and begin to prize all things small (startups) and tiny (houses), I can't help but wonder if it's in response to the big, messy world that we're all so much more aware of than before – Afghanistan, Iraq, al-Qaida, the Islamic State, Syria, Russia, the Greek debt crisis, the fading hope of the BRICs and so much more. An increasing number of people tune in intently to what is local to them, wherever they might be. Our agency is calling this localism – the mashing together of local focus and global awareness. It has echoes of that old activist mantra "Think global, act local," but with a 21st-century twist. I've long been part of the herky-jerky discussion about this mindset, proclaiming "Local is the new global" as long ago as 2007. But Havas PR is walking the walk when it comes to localism with more purpose than ever. And that's why our Pittsburgh office flourishes and why we have chosen to build offices in Phoenix and Providence that have really taken off – including winning the Rhode Island tourism account, the ultimate local marketing dream assignment. We're living this trend. Localism is more than just the way we feel about where we live and the global village:It's about what makes us feel happy and safe. It's the new American mindset (and increasingly the mentality in many other countries, too). In a chaotic world that feels out of our control, this is a good thing. Local is more manageable and controllable, and more of us are deciding that our best hope for making a difference is to act locally. Marian Salzman is CEO of Havas PR North America and chair of the Havas PR Global Collective. Havas PR North America

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Home » Education (x) » Search results The Globe, January 13, 2020, Online Edition legislating, local government, local politics, Salt Lake Community College, Education Outstanding Alumni Awards Award recipients from L. to R.: Ed Lile, Larry Pulley, Sherman Anderson, Mike Wilson, Robymm Sisam, Randy Foote (the Alumni President), SLCC President Frank W. Budd, Steve Hemingway, Tom Carroll, Dennis Butler, Keith Layton, Cheryl Sneddon. Digitization completed with funds from a 2017 USHRAB (Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board) Grant that was awarded to Salt Lake Community College, Library Services. Frank W. Budd (President 1991-2000), Education, people, leaders, Awards, ceremonies, Alumni & alumnae, Salt Lake Community College, alumni associations Practicing for the Eccles Lab School Ground Breaking Black and white photographs of children practicing for the ground breaking of the Eccles Lab School. Specific persons in photos not identified. Eccles Early Childhood Development Lab School (Redwood Campus), Day care, Education, Black and White Style, children Points West, November 19, 1982, No. 8 Education, Veterans, Recording & registration, Catholicism, seminars, enrollments, Thanksgiving CAM: Center For Arts and Media: Animation In 2013, Salt Lake Community College rolled out the red carpet for its new state-of-the-industry Center for Arts and Media, serving about 9,000 students with 17 programs under one roof as part of the School of Arts and Communication.Located at the school's South City Campus in Salt Lake City, the Center's emphasis is a strong focus in digital arts. Instructors are training students for jobs in animation, illustration, photography, film, TV, video and radio production, web design, visual art and design, virtual technologies, music and digital sound technology, computer graphics, gaming and electronic publishing. "I believe it can change the landscape of how we in higher education nurture our students toward either transferable degrees with our sister USHE (Utah System of Higher Education) institutions or the vibrant industry within the digital disciplines," said SLCC School of Arts, Communication and Media Dean Richard Scott. "A facility like this will enable us to provide world class, industry standard experiences for the state's digital student." Artists, Art, animation drawings, Animation, computer animation, Students, Education, education by subject CAM: Center For Arts and Media: Film In 2013, Salt Lake Community College rolled out the red carpet for its new state-of-the-industry Center for Arts and Media, serving about 9,000 students with 17 programs under one roof as part of the School of Arts and Communication. Located at the school's South City Campus in Salt Lake City, the Center's emphasis is a strong focus in digital arts. Instructors are training students for jobs in animation, illustration, photography, film, TV, video and radio production, web design, visual art and design, virtual technologies, music and digital sound technology, computer graphics, gaming and electronic publishing. "I believe it can change the landscape of how we in higher education nurture our students toward either transferable degrees with our sister Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) institutions or the vibrant industry within the digital disciplines," said SLCC School of Arts, Communication and Media Dean Richard Scott. "A facility like this will enable us to provide world class, industry standard experiences for the state's digital student." Students, Education, education by subject, Theatrical productions, stages, film, film crews, filmmaking, mass media, media, Center for Arts & Media (South City Campus) Somos Más Kickoff 2020 Color photographs of the Somos Más (translation "We are More") kickoff event. Somos Más is a program geared at helping and supporting minority students achieve their academic goals. Hispanic American, Spanish, Education SLCC Magazine 2019: Summer/Fall The Summer/Fall edition of SLCC Magazine. This edition of the publication mainly highlights the various careers students at Salt Lake Community College have done after graduating. Occupations, Education, sports, salaries Horizon, November 21, 1990, Vol. 90-91 No. 15 Education, Smoking, Awards, Alcoholism, parking Teacher Giving A Math Lecture Teacher gives a mathematics lecture in a commons area. Digitization completed with funds from a 2017 USHRAB (Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board) Grant that was awarded to Salt Lake Community College, Library Services. mathematics, mathematicians, Salt Lake Community College, Education, Students Florence Malmquist Florence Elizabeth Ray Malmquist was born January 10, 1904 in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, to Dr. C.N. Ray and Lulu Bourgard Ray. Married O.N. Malmquist on January 10, 1931. Quist was political editor of the Salt Lake Tribune for many years. He preceded her in death in 1985. Florence spent her early years in Bingham, moved to Salt Lake to attend public schools and East High School, and graduated from the University of Utah in 1926. She was a life-long member of the Chi Omega Sorority and a sustaining member of the Junior League. Her community contributions included memberships on the board of the Arts Center (Art Barn), Women's Legislative Council (16 years), founding member of Utah Association for United Nations (1945), Utah State Merit Council (16 years), Board of Trustees Utah Technical College (10 years). Employed by SouthEast Furniture Company (16 years). Member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church since 1945 where she was for many years active in the Altar Guild. She particularly enjoyed her role in preparing brides for their weddings. Malmquist passed away on December 12, 1996 in Salt Lake City. Digitization completed with funds from a 2017 USHRAB (Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board) Grant that was awarded to Salt Lake Community College, Library Services. Community service, Portrait photographs, Education The Globe, October 28, 2015. Fall '15 Issue 10. Fashion designers, Fashion shows, Education The Globe, April 16, 2009, Spring '09, Issue 5. Education, Environmental policy, Pakistani, 2009, amusement parks, Fashion shows, international relations Points West, February 6, 1979, Vol. 5 No. 14 Employment, Students, Education, Vocational education Drug abuse, Education, Political elections, Presidents, Constitutions Paul Lerdahl As Benjamin Franklin Paul Lerdahl as Ben Franklin. Salt Lake Community College's Associate Professor of Electricity. Lerdahl portrays Ben Franklin in "Legacy of a Tradesman" lectures. Digitization completed with funds from a 2017 USHRAB (Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board) Grant that was awarded to Salt Lake Community College, Library Services. people, associate professors, electrical attributes and properties, electrical engineering, Education, historians of science New Registrar, Loren Evans Loren Evans is a new registrar. Digitization completed with funds from a 2017 USHRAB (Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board) Grant that was awarded to Salt Lake Community College, Library Services. Employees, Education, Salt Lake Community College Career and Technical Education Display at the Utah State Capitol Photographs of a Career and Technical Education (CTE) display at the Utah State Caption. Significance media coverage is being done and SLCC representatives are on sight. Education, media, Vocational education, vocational schools, continuing education Horizon, May 2, 1990, Vol. 89-90 No. 27 Teachers, Wages, Politicians, funding, Education, mathematics

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Mistrzostwa Świata w Unihokeju Mężczyzn U19 2003 – 2. edycja międzynarodowego turnieju o tytuł mistrza świata organizowanego przez Międzynarodową Federację Unihokeja (IFF) która trwała od 5 listopada do 11 listopada 2003 roku w Pradze, w Czechach. Brązowy medal przypadł reprezentacji Czech, która pokonała Szwajcarię. Złoty medal zdobyła reprezentacja Finlandii, srebrny Szwecji. Faza grupowa Grupa A Tabela Wyniki Grupa B Tabela Wyniki Faza pucharowa mecz o 7 miejsce mecz o 5 miejsce Półfinały Brązowy medal Final Ranking końcowy Tabela końcowa Przypisy Mistrzostwa świata juniorów w unihokeju 2003 w unihokeju 2003 w Czechach Sport w Pradze Unihokej w Czechach

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package com.birdcopy.BirdCopyApp.Search; import java.lang.Override; import java.util.ArrayList; import android.app.ListActivity; import android.content.Context; import android.content.Intent; import android.os.Bundle; import android.text.Editable; import android.text.TextWatcher; import android.view.*; import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager; import android.widget.*; import android.widget.TextView.OnEditorActionListener; import com.birdcopy.BirdCopyApp.R; import com.birdcopy.BirdCopyApp.Component.listener.BackGestureListener; public class SearchActivity extends ListActivity implements SearchData.DealResult { public final static String TAG = "VLC/SearchActivity"; private ImageView mBackView; private TextView mTitleView; private ImageView mSearchView; private SearchData mSearchTagdata; private ArrayList<String> mData; private boolean mFirstWord=true; private EditText mSearchText; private SearchHistoryAdapter mHistoryAdapter; private SearchResultAdapter mResultAdapter; private LinearLayout mListHeader; /** 手势监听 */ GestureDetector mGestureDetector; /** 是否需要监听手势关闭功能 */ private boolean mNeedBackGesture = true; public SearchActivity() { // Empty constructor required for fragment subclasses super(); mData = new ArrayList<String>(); mSearchTagdata = new SearchData(); mSearchTagdata.setDelegate(this); } @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.search); setNeedBackGesture(true); // TODO: create layout mHistoryAdapter = new SearchHistoryAdapter(this); mResultAdapter = new SearchResultAdapter(this); mSearchTagdata = new SearchData(); mSearchTagdata.setDelegate(this); initDataAndView(); initGestureDetector(); } private void initDataAndView() { mSearchText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.search_text); mSearchText.setOnEditorActionListener(searchTextListener); mSearchText.addTextChangedListener(searchTextWatcher); mBackView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.top_back); mBackView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { onBackPressed(); } }); mTitleView = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.search_top_title); mTitleView.setText(R.string.search_top_title); mSearchView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.search_btn); mSearchView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { if( mSearchText.getText().toString()==null|| mSearchText.getText().toString().length()==0) { if(mData.size()==0) { showSearchHistory(); } else { Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "没有更多了:)", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } } else { Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "没有更多了:)", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); } } }); search(null); } @Override public void onResume() { super.onResume(); mSearchText.requestFocus(); InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.showSoftInput(mSearchText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT); showSearchHistory(); } @Override public void onPause() { super.onPause(); InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(findViewById(R.id.search_view).getWindowToken(), 0); } private void search(String key) { int results=0; if(mFirstWord==true) { mSearchTagdata.getTagListStrByTag(key,1000); } else{ // set result adapter to the list mResultAdapter.clear(); for (int i = 0; i < mData.size(); i++) { String item = mData.get(i); if (item.contains(key)) { mResultAdapter.add(item); results++; } } mResultAdapter.sort(); } String headerText = getResources().getQuantityString(R.plurals.search_found_results_quantity, results, results); showListHeader(headerText); setListAdapter(mResultAdapter); } private void showListHeader(String text) { ListView lv = getListView(); // Create a new header if it doesn't already exist if (mListHeader == null) { LayoutInflater infalter = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); mListHeader = (LinearLayout) infalter.inflate(R.layout.list_header, lv, false); lv.addHeaderView(mListHeader, null, false); } // Set header text TextView headerText = (TextView) mListHeader.findViewById(R.id.text); headerText.setText(text); } private void showSearchHistory() { if(mData.size()==0) { mSearchTagdata.getTagListStrByTag(null,1000); } else { // Add header to the history String headerText = getString(R.string.search_history); showListHeader(headerText); mHistoryAdapter.clear(); for (String s : mData) { mHistoryAdapter.add(s); } mHistoryAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); setListAdapter(mHistoryAdapter); } } private final TextWatcher searchTextWatcher = new TextWatcher() { @Override public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) { if (s.length() > 0) { mFirstWord = false; search(s.toString()); } else { mFirstWord = true; showSearchHistory(); } } @Override public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) { } @Override public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) { } }; private final OnEditorActionListener searchTextListener = new OnEditorActionListener() { @Override public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) { InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mSearchText.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS); return false; } }; @Override public void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) { if (getListAdapter() == mHistoryAdapter) { String selection = ((TextView) v.findViewById(android.R.id.text1)).getText().toString(); mSearchText.setText(selection); mSearchText.setSelection(selection.length()); mSearchText.requestFocus(); } else if (getListAdapter() == mResultAdapter) { String item = (String) getListView().getItemAtPosition(position); if(item!=null && !item.equals("")) { Intent resultIntent = new Intent(); Bundle bundle = new Bundle(); bundle.putString("result", item); resultIntent.putExtras(bundle); this.setResult(RESULT_OK, resultIntent); SearchActivity.this.finish(); } super.onListItemClick(l, v, position, id); } }; public void onSearchKeyPressed() { if (mSearchText == null) return; mSearchText.requestFocus(); mSearchText.setSelection(mSearchText.getText().length()); InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.showSoftInput(mSearchText, InputMethodManager.RESULT_SHOWN); } public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER){ InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); if(imm.isActive()){ imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0 ); } return true; } return false; } public void parseOK(ArrayList<String> list) { if (list.size()>0) { mResultAdapter.clear(); mData.clear(); for (String data : list) { mResultAdapter.add(data); } // stash all the data in our backing store mData.addAll(list); // notify the adapter that we can update now mResultAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); } } private void initGestureDetector() { if (mGestureDetector == null) { mGestureDetector = new GestureDetector(getApplicationContext(), new BackGestureListener(this)); } } @Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub if(mNeedBackGesture){ return mGestureDetector.onTouchEvent(ev) || super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev); 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I know I probably say this all the time but the year went by so quickly! My schedule has been really hectic and I never had the time to do anything else. On my days off, I usually stay at home. This New Year's Eve I had my mind set up that I will be avoiding the downtown area at any cost. I figured it's going to be super crazy with all the parties going on plus the fireworks. So my sister and I decided to spend it at a family friend's house. Which was actually a good idea. I enjoyed the quietness of the suburbs. I opted for this printed bodycon dress that I bought the day before. It kind of pulled this outfit at the last minute due to the fact that it goes very well with the cobalt blue jacket. Love the outfit Tiffany! I agree, we stayed home because we knew how crazy crowded it would be on NYE. My name is Tiffany, a twenty-something blogger. This blog was launched to document my personal style and adventures around the city of Toronto (or wherever I'm at). Oh, and I spend time alone with a coffee on hand and my laptop on the table. Every single image, unless stated, on this blog are taken by Tiffany Cruz and copyright of citysleekchic.com©. Pictures can only be used with prior consent and they have to be linked back to this blog. I disclose at the beginning or end of each post if the article is a sponsored post, if a product was sent to me by PR, or if affiliate links are incorporated. Please note: Some posts contain affiliate links, and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.

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Friday Creek Retreat has everything you need for a romantic getaway without ever having to leave the green pastures and crystal clear streams of our 100-acre property. Friday Creek Retreat is set on 100 acres in a beautiful valley at Upper Orara on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. Some say that Orara is derived from Urara, which is Aboriginal for 'where Perch live.' And Perch certainly do live in the Friday Creek Retreat Lake, where they've been dodging anglers for many years! If you'd like to try your luck though, we'll provide the gear – but please remember, it's always kiss and release. Quite often, our guests will borrow our bicycles and go for a ride along Friday Creek Road. They ride past our vineyard; glossy well-fed cattle and horses; and an organic egg farm. Others prefer to explore the valley on foot to enjoy the various walks available. The beautiful design creates a feeling of nature's own rock pools – crystal clear, sparkling waters with all the smoothness and comfort of today's pool technology. The landscaped pools gently follow the contours of the land; providing vantage points from where you can admire the panoramic expanses of Friday Creek's rolling hills and plains. Overlooking the pools is a rustic style, covered space that houses a very popular wood fired pizza oven, gas BBQ, refrigerator, Bluetooth speakers (bring your own music), tables and chairs and a very functional kitchenette. This has been home to many family gatherings, happy Pizza Parties and small gatherings of guests and their friends. Over the years, many guests have discovered (some have rediscovered) the simple pleasures of rolling a heavy ball across manicured lawns to come as close as possible to a small 'target ball'. We believe that the Italian version can become quite animated! But – it's all good fun. Although seemingly more sedate, the game of Croquet is pretty challenging. It requires some dexterous handling of a mallet to propel balls through hoops. And even if you get it all wrong, it's still hilarious! The full-size synthetic grass court has been positioned in another beautiful part of Friday Creek Retreat. It's surrounded by magnificent old gum trees and beautiful lawns, with rustic seating for those who love spectator sports. Just bring some strawberries, cream and an ice bucket with your favourite tipple. Even though the CSIRO has stated that the Coffs Harbour area has, 'the best climate around', Mother Nature can sometimes send clouds, showers and cool spells. At Friday Creek Retreat, you'll find beauty in all weather – especially when you can curl up indoors with a roaring log fire (winter months only) with a selection from our pretty comprehensive library of movies, books and music. They're all free too. The fully equipped laundry provides washing machine, dryers and detergent dispensers – all at no extra charge to you. Also, all games equipment is yours for the asking – free of charge. We've found that most of our guests prefer to bring their own provisions for all meals (which means our kitchens are very popular!) But there are times when you might crave a pizza fresh from the pizza oven … so we suggest you bring your favourite toppings and allow us to provide you with freshly made pizza dough bases. Please give us some notice (about 4 hours or so) to prepare it freshly for you. Each dough base makes several small pizzas (about 8 – all perfect for the paddle and the oven) and this quantity provides more than enough for 2 adults. We also provide a tomato sauce base and fresh, aromatic herbs from our garden. Together with the toppings of your choice that you have brought along, this produces a delicious, satisfying pizza meal for $20.00. We deliver to the poolside kitchen area at a time that suits you and help you get the pizza oven fired up and give you some simple instructions on how to build a great pizza. Please note that commercially bought pizzas are not suitable for our wood fired pizza oven. Pizzas are not available on the day of your arrival at Friday Creek Retreat if your ETA is 5pm or later. While most of our guests provide their own breakfast foods, there are times when some need our help. We can, at short notice, bake you a fresh loaf of hot bread with condiments for $15, delivered straight to your cottage at a time that suits you.

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April 11, 2018 Culture » Arts & Entertainment No Holds Bard Choreographer David Bintley experiments with classic plays in The Shakespeare Suite. By Katherine Pioli Ballet West: The Shakespeare Suite 50 W. 200 South April 13-21, 7:30 p.m.; April 21, 2 p.m. artsaltlake.org Beau Pearson First Soloist Allison DeBona and Principal Artist Rex Tilton in The Shakespeare Suite. Looking at the full scope of David Bintley's ballet career, one would be forgiven for pegging him as a true classicist. From the Royal Ballet School, where he trained as a young man, to the Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), where he began as a company member and choreographer and where he still serves today as the company's director (he will be retiring next season), Bintley's career has taken him to two of the three most important ballet companies in the United Kingdom. And many have written of how Bintley's work, which maintains the highest technical and artistic standards, has championed and advanced the English style of ballet—encouraging supple, flexible torsos and a stylistic nuance that sought balance and purity of line over extreme virtuosity. But Bintley has a penchant for coloring outside the lines, creating ballets that don't fit neatly into the classical repertoire. The Shakespeare Suite (1999) is one such ballet. And Ballet West is now one of the very few companies outside of the Birmingham Royal Ballet to perform it. The selections for Ballet West's spring season often stand apart from the more traditional mid-season offerings, like the perennial Nutcracker and classic story ballets like Swan Lake and Cinderella. Spring is for things that are fresh, lively and often contemporary. This year, as Ballet West's Artistic Director Adam Sklute told KUED in a recent interview, "The whole program is about my three favorite works that were off the beaten path." Also hand-picked by Sklute for this program is Jií Kylián's Return to a Strange Land (1974), a somber work created after the sudden death of Kylián's mentor, John Cranko, who also had been a dancer and choreographer for The Royal Ballet. The second piece, 1958's Summerspace, is an ambitious attempt at a highly experimental work by the seminal modern dance choreographer Merce Cunningham. During the making of this piece, Cunningham, graphic artist Robert Rauschenberg and composer Morton Feldman all worked entirely independently to produce the dance, music and costuming, bringing the three elements together for the first time during its stage premiere. These two lead into The Shakespeare Suite, composed of seven vignettes, each lasting less than three minutes. It's a pop-culture-inspired interpretation of some of Shakespeare's most popular plays: Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo & Juliet. In addition to the high-energy theatrical antics coming out in these pieces, the costuming—sunglasses, punk hairdos, power suits and Chuck Taylor shoes—signals an unusual sense of flair. That flair and vivacity continues through the music. Bintley, whose amateur-musician father was particularly fond of playing jazz, often uses the strains of American roots music as the soundtrack to his work. That tendency goes back to one of his earliest pieces, the abstract and spirited one-act ballet Take Five (1978), named after and set to Dave Brubeck's famous jazz score of the same name. The Shakespeare Suite is one of these jazz ballets, performed to a Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn score. Bintley's jazz pieces were surprisingly well received in Britain, so in an attempt to win over American audiences during the Birmingham Royal Ballet's New York City debut in 2000, Bintley put together a special "Jazz Triple" showcase, expecting Yanks to embrace something set to jazz. The showcase featured his own Nutcracker Sweeties, set to music by Ellington, and The Shakespeare Suite alongside George Balanchine's Slaughter on 10th Avenue (created for the Broadway musical On Your Toes). The Times raved about Balanchine while picking apart Bintley's Suite, calling it "bland business." One wonders if those New York critics 18 years ago just weren't ready for real contemporary ballet. A recent revival of the Suite by the BRB earned the company an entirely different kind of appraisal. The online arts review Seeing Dance noted, "The Shakespeare Suite is Bintley letting his hair down; and what fun it is, too." A review in London Dance called the work "witty, quirky, visually appealing" and praised the use of vignettes that touch on several of the Bard's stories, saying, "It certainly covers several of his best-loved dysfunctional pairings." Not to be outdone, the London Times wrote, "Bintley is singlehandedly updating the British choreographic tradition." David Bintley has had a 42-year career with the Birmingham Royal Ballet and in that time he has choreographed 10 full-length and 12 one-act ballets, from light-hearted, crowd-pleasers to others that struggle with complex emotions (such as The Dance House, a one-act ballet that meditates on the effects of the AIDS crisis in the ballet world). Of all Bintley's ballets, however, The Shakespeare Suite is the one that director Sklute wants to show local audiences. These riskier works might not be classical, but that doesn't mean they can't become classics. Tags: Arts & Entertainment « After #MeToo | Proudly Peculiar » More Arts & Entertainment » Katherine Pioli [email protected] More by Katherine Pioli Girl Child explores the trialsand treasures of being a woman. Oquirrh West Revival A small company re-launches with the help of a big-name choreographer. Penny For Their Thoughts Ririe-Woodbury collaborates with young storytellers—and many local artists—for a new Red Fred Project creation. Latest in Arts & Entertainment Girls Don't Just Wanna Have Fun The creators of Girls Gotta Eat approach crafting a funny, raunchy podcast with professionalism. by Scott Renshaw Geekonomics It's getting more expensive all the time to be a pop-culture fan. by Bryan Young Believe the Hyper David Payne turns an arcade game collection into a mobile gallery of "fine hyper art." by Parker Scott Mortensen Fertile Ground Struggles with family-building lead to the creation of The Art of Infertility. 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Learning Model Admissions & Application Degree Types > Fees > Financial Aid Exams & Courses Proctors > Transfer Credits > Technical Support FAQ » Academic Programs » Computer Science » If I get a computer science degree from uopeople, Can I use it to apply to graduate school in the US? If I get a computer science degree from uopeople, Can I use it to apply to graduate school in the US? Like other universities, UoPeople cannot guarantee that its students or their credits will be accepted by other academic institutions, since this is determined by each institution individually. If you are looking to transfer credits earned at UoPeople to another institution, students should consult and verify with the receiving institution regarding the transferability of UoPeople credits. However, UoPeople accreditation, academic partnerships with NYU and Edinburgh, together with the support of our academic partners and leadership – hailing from such universities as Yale University, University of Oxford, Columbia University, and more – we feel certain that UoPeople students will be able to go far with their degrees. It may help to know that many of our students and graduates have gone on to continue their education at universities around the world, including NYU, MIT, the University of Auckland (New Zealand), UC Berkeley (USA), the University of Nairobi (Kenya), Carnegie Mellon University (Australia), University of Newcastle (Australia), Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and many more. University of the People offers the following eight degrees: Associate and Bachelor degrees in Computer Science; Associate, Bachelor and Master degrees in Business Administration; Associate and Bachelor degrees in Health Science; and a Master degree in Education.

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Home Accounting Manning School of Business ACCA Accreditation IMA Endorsement Accounting Advisory Board The UMass Lowell Accounting Department offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs. At the undergraduate level, our students can earn a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) degree with a concentration in Accounting. At the graduate level, we offer a Master of Science in Accounting and a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting. Benjamin Gacek Criminal Justice, Accounting A summer co-op inspired Benjamin Gacek to pick up a second major and pursue a career in forensic accounting. Read More About Benjamin Gacek In the Criminal Justice program, every single professor is very, very qualified, and the personal relationships with them have been amazing. 12/8/2020 Department News What It's Like for New Faculty During a Pandemic As their first semester at UML draws to a close, new Manning School of Business faculty members JM Song, Lei Jia and James Zheng are thankful for the support of their colleagues — and the resiliency of their students. 11/18/2020 Department News Manning School Inducts 40 into Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society In a virtual ceremony on Zoom featuring alum Darlene Steffen '76, the Manning School of Business inducted 40 students into the Beta Gamma Sigma international business honor society. In a Disrupted World, Manning Says Education is Critical Rob Manning '84, '11 (H), chair of the UMass Board of Trustees and executive chair of MFS Investment Management, told Manning School of Business students they are well positioned to succeed in a world that is being disrupted by technology during an executive leadership webinar. 9/17/2020 Featured Story Accounting Student Blazes New Trail to UML First-year Manning School of Business student Jasmine Varona is the first student to complete Haverhill High School's NAF Academy of Finance, a certificate program developed by the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants in partnership with UML to introduce young students to the accounting profession. University Crossing Suite 420, 220 Pawtucket St. The Campaign for UMass Lowell

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Lisandro López (born 2 March 1983), sometimes known as Lisandro, is an Argentine professional footballer. After starting out at Racing Club in 2003, López spent most of his professional career with Porto in Portugal and Lyon in France, winning eight major titles the two teams combined. He plays for Al-Gharafa Sports Club. Primarily a striker, he is also capable of playing on the wings.

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La maratona ha fatto parte del programma di atletica leggera maschile ai Giochi della XXVII Olimpiade. La competizione si è svolta il 4 agosto 1996 nella città di Atlanta, con arrivo nello Stadio olimpico. Presenze ed assenze dei campioni in carica Finale La gara si svolge in condizioni atmosferiche difficili, a causa del 92% di umidità. Il ritmo iniziale di gara non può che essere controllato. Poco dopo il 30º km si ha il primo strappo, ad opera di Josia Thugwane. Il sudafricano viene raggiunto dal coreano Lee Bong-Ju, mentre Erick Wainaina e Martín Fiz rimangono distanziati di una cinquantina di metri. Successivamente anche Waianina riesce a raggiungere la testa della corsa. I tre proseguono indisturbati fino alla fine della gara, giocando a scattare ed a controscattare tra di loro. Il gioco del gatto col topo prosegue fino al traguardo; ne esce il finale più serrato di sempre per una maratona olimpica: i tre medagliati giungono separati da solo 8 secondi! Danilo Goffi, nono, è il migliore degli italiani. Josia Thugwane è il primo nero sudafricano a vincere l'oro alle Olimpiadi. Risultati Atletica leggera maschile ai Giochi della XXVI Olimpiade 1996 Giochi olimpici 1996

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Rest in Peace and Love, Mary Travers (1936-2009) I love so many Peter, Paul, and Mary songs, but perhaps this one is my favorite: I am just so sad to hear the news of your passing, Mary. May your voice sing on in harmony with the call for justice and freedom for the oppressed. Mary Travers of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary died Wednesday after a long battle with leukemia. She was 72. Bandmate Peter Yarrow said Travers handled her disease with "great dignity." "It was, as Mary always was, honest and completely authentic," he said. "That's the way she sang, too, honestly and with complete authenticity," Yarrow told The Associated Press. Travers underwent a successful bone marrow transplant to treat her leukemia and while she could perform after that, she told WTOP radio in Washington that her condition had worsened earlier this year. Noel "Paul" Stookey praised Travers for her inspiring activism, "especially in her defense of the defenseless." "I am deadened and heartsick beyond words to consider a life without Mary Travers," he told The Associated Press. The band's publicist, Heather Lylis, said Travers died at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. Peter, Paul and Mary was one of the most successful folk groups of the 1960s, with hit songs such as "If I Had a Hammer," "Lemon Tree," "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and "Puff the Magic Dragon." Mary Allin Travers was born Nov. 9, 1936, in Louisville, Ky., to two journalists who moved the family to New York's Greenwich Village. She attended school through the 11th grade before pursuing a singing career. Pete Seeger, a founding member of the folk group the Weavers, lived in the same building as the Travers family and Travers performed with him. Travers backed Seeger on one album and for two shows at Carnegie Hall, but it wasn't until she connected with Yarrow and Stookey that she found worldwide success. Yarrow was managed by Albert Grossman, who later worked with Bob Dylan. The trio rehearsed in Travers' apartment for several months before its 1961 debut at the Bitter End in New York City. The group won five Grammy Awards for its three-part harmony for "Leaving on a Jet Plane," "Puff the Magic Dragon" and Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind." Travers is survived by her fourth husband, Ethan Robbins, and daughters Alicia and Erika. For a video featuring three of the greats of 1960s U.S. white folk-pop music: Mama Cass, Joni Mitchell, and Mary Travers, singing a Bob Dylan song "I Shall Be Released", click here. END OF POST. Labels: women's voices calling for justice

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Thai Airways plane in Suvarnabhumi Airport © Nok Nok / Shutterstock, Inc. Sometimes it's nice to get to your destination quickly though, so if the cost has not already dissuaded you, you can get a flight from Bangkok to Koh Phangan (arriving in Koh Samui) with Bangkok Airways. It is the only airline available to Koh Samui but the good news is they have frequent flights, departing almost hourly from Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport. Once you've landed in Koh Samui the Big Buddha Pier is close by for catching a ferry over to Koh Phangan. The fast ferries take about 30 minutes and usually the last one of the day will depart at 6.30pm except for during the Full Moon Party when they run all night. Bus transfer from train station to Surat Thani Pier © HGalina / Shutterstock, Inc.

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Brianne was award the William Jaggard Scholarship from the Society of Flavor Chemistry and will be presenting her work at the SFC midwest meeting. Amy has been elected as IFTSA's VP of Competitions for the 2019-2020 term. Kenzi passed her candidacy exams! Amy and Kenzi were awarded graduate scholarships from OVIFT for the essays they wrote. Morgan received first place in the undergraduate portion of the spring OVIFT forum! Jenna was a finalist in the undergraduate portion of the spring OVIFT forum! Gabe, Jenna, Morgan, Jess, and Robin presented their research at the spring OVIFT forum. Kevin was awarded a CFAES (College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences) Distinguished Senior Award!

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Stablecoins Are the Bridge From Central Banks to Consumer Payments Stablecoins can mediate between central bank digital currencies and the consumer payments universe, says Sila's Alex Lipton. By Alexander Lipton May 30, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. UTC Alexander Lipton Alexander Lipton is the CTO of Sila, a visiting professor and Dean's Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Connection Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As many still wait to receive the check from the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, which is set to distribute $484 billion in an effort to boost the U.S. economy, it brings to the forefront the question of why central banks have still not created a true digital alternative to cash. When completed, the Economic Impact Payment program will distribute 150 million payments. Eighty million people who received their 2018 or 2019 tax refund by direct deposit will receive direct deposits. The rest will primarily be paid using paper bank checks. As of May 6, 2020, there was $1.87 trillion worth of Federal Reserve notes in circulation, which accounts for 5%-10% of all U.S. currency in circulation, with the remaining 90% sitting in financial institutions or electronic accounts. Just under half of the stimulus payments are sent via paper check, which incurs additional cost to the government and recipients (especially the unbanked, who will face exorbitant fees). This alone shows how misaligned the current banking infrastructure is in the U.S. with the reality of how money circulates today. Financial systems as we know them are on their last legs due to persistent negative or barely positive interest rates. Open access internet protocols have unleashed a wave of creativity and growth in finance and beyond, but banking is not one of them. The reason stems mostly from the fact that successful open-access protocols for money and identity, while sorely needed, are conspicuously absent at present. A regulatory-compliant, fiat-backed tokenized medium of exchange can help to fill this gap. While bitcoin has led the charge for a new vision of cryptocurrencies, the emergence of stablecoins is possibly more critical by way of filling this gap. My co-founder at Sila, Shamir Karkal, gave his opinion on the role FedNow will have in modernizing U.S. payment systems, but FedNow is still five years away and focuses on updating an ACH [automated clearinghouse] system that has barely been improved upon since 1972. The move towards fully digital currencies brings much-needed efficiency to U.S. payment systems, which could unleash a new wave of innovation in finance and beyond. What is more troubling is the prevailing macroeconomic framework, which authorities use to guide macroeconomic activity, is based on outdated paradigms. Standard models that are supposed to govern money creation and interest rates, for example, still treat private banks as pure intermediaries, ignoring the fact that they are big, active, money-creating elements unto themselves. The fact that banks have their self-centered motivations and profit-making strategies injects significant additional complexity into the system. Although the potential for sweeping change is sparking fervent innovation, many obstacles remain. How these digital networks get built and used are critical factors in ensuring they promote equity and accountability. New financial networks, and CBDCs in particular, could enable extreme levels of centralized control if not handled with care. See also: Ajit Tripahti - 4 Reasons Central Banks Should Launch Retail Digital Currencies New technologies for blockchain-based distributed ledgers are making it possible to create digital currencies far more efficient than the analog/digital U.S. dollar and purely digital bitcoin. As stablecoin projects seeking to disrupt payments such as libra have enjoyed broad media coverage, they are also increasingly scrutinized by regulatory authorities. As the term "stablecoin" gained popularity in finance, its meaning has blurred. From a technology-agnostic perspective, I've concluded what a stablecoin is really is: should not be a form of currency should be usable without any direct interaction with the issuer should be tradable on a secondary market and have low price volatility in terms of a target quote currency Jointly with my MIT colleagues, Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland and Dr. Thomas Hardjono, we had proposed the idea of a Digital Trade Coin (DTC) back in 2017. DTCs combine the best features of both cash and digital currencies and are mostly immune to policies of the central banks that control the world's reserve currencies. In the process of creating DTCs, the administrator will be in charge of real assets, sponsors will own fiat currency and the general public will own DTCs, which are always convertible into fiat at the current market price. If that sounds familiar to libra - its similarities to our 2018 paper proposing a Digital Trade Coin may not be a coincidence. Digital dollar The head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, Benoît Cœuré, said the ongoing coronavirus crisis had put the global conversation around CBDCs back in the limelight. CBDCs can give policymakers more effective tools to support the economy, particularly during times of crisis, while maintaining financial stability. As we have seen in recent weeks amid the issuance of the stimulus packages to combat the economic impact of COVID-19, a flurry of "Digital Dollar" proposals have made it to Congress and more keep coming. The conversation around a central bank's core role as the sole issuer of banknotes in circulation has also come to the forefront. CBDCs, similarly to cash, would be conducted on a peer-to-peer basis. CBDCs open up possibilities for a more effective monetary policy, but also a chance of pushing interest rates into seriously negative territory and other controversial policies. On the one hand, it offers the promise of increasing efficiencies in tax collection while reducing money laundering and illicit payments. On the other, it places too much government control over ordinary citizens. DIGITAL DOLLARS: Former CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo said building a digital dollar could take years, but work needs to start now to achieve this. In principle, it would be possible to open a checking account at a central bank directly, thus making retail banks obsolete and crushing that industry. Bypassing input from private banks could ultimately give the government absolute control over the economy. It would also mean the government has a record of everything we buy – including all the purchases we usually make via anonymous cash. This idea is increasingly looking like a possible scheme, and countries such as China, the U.K., Singapore and Sweden have been studying the possibility of implementing such a strategy for the last few years. China has been leading the charge, with the introduction of libra seemingly accelerating the development of the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) initiative. Big data and the emergence of digital currencies and digital contracts could have a more significant role in influencing monetary policy. Rather than using historical averages to estimate what might happen in any economic system, it is possible now to completely simulate every individual trade and transaction and analyze all potential outcomes. CBDCs would make such analysis even more efficient but could come at a high cost to liberty and privacy. The critical takeaway here is that although the technology itself is decentralized by design it can be used to create centrally controlled systems. Bottom-up better The idea of distributed ledgers is not new but modern technology has certainly given it a new lease of life. Digital cash is a promising avenue. If physical cash disappears, it is possible to imagine a future where everyone has direct access to central bank cash, albeit indirectly. Retail banks may bifurcate into narrow banks and investment pools. The move towards fully digital currencies brings much-needed efficiency to U.S. payment systems, which could unleash a new wave of innovation in finance and beyond. With a whole new level of clarity, we (and the government) could learn to recognize and act on early-warning economic signals that arise from within the trillions of transactions recorded in a ledger, thus increasing system stability and safety. But the focus on CBDCs raises many political and sociological concerns and provide significant obstacles to its ultimate implementation. The current innovations and testing of multiple forms of stablecoins could bridge the gap between total government control and current efficiencies in U.S. payment systems. The ultimate push will likely come bottom-up from fintech innovation, rather than top-down from the government. I, for one, think that is the best approach to make the best ultimate solution to fix the problems in payments today. Subscribe to First Mover, our daily newsletter about markets.

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First up is the great Iain Ballamy, who is back on Wednesday 26th November, and the club finishes the year in an afro-jazz blast with Mosi Conde and Craig Crofton on Wednesday 10th December. All events are free entry, in the newly furbished bar downstairs at The Old Bath Arms, 1 Palmer Street, Frome (BA11 1DS). Music starts 8.30pm – arrival soon after 8.00pm is advised for a seat. Frome Jazz Club look forward to seeing you there.

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